... much truth in the jest, for the particular ma chines which gave us such marked superiority over the Germans during the Battle of the Somme in the autumn of 1916 actually made their first appearance as experimental samples in the summer of 1915, and were not ...

... my preach ing and gin ye're nae a better preacher than me, ye're no' worth listening tae. a cinema near Glasgow the Battle of the Somme film was being shown, and sitting side by side were a Highlander and an English Tommy. When they came to the part showing ...

... recent vindication of the R.F.C. The Times man stated that we have a mastery in the air hardly less complete than in the Battle of the Somme. Nobody will accuse the Times of being anxious to cover up any aerial short comings of the War Office, so that the ...

... themselves. Of the Tyneside Scottish and Irish Territorial battalions, when they made their debut in the war at the first battle of the Somme, July 16, their advance through the German curtain of fire was described as simply wonderful. They be haved like veterans ...

... Germans. It was the fruits of the Battle of the Somme and of the spear-thrust up the valley of the Ancre. The German fortress-lines which had occupied years in the making were battered through in that long-drawn series of battles, and, as we long ago observed ...

... commissions together. Lieut. Ralph Brown has been missing since the first battle of the Somme in 1916 while Capt. Lindsay Brown, who was dangerously wounded in the same battle, is still serving, and has been awarded the M.C, A fourth brother, Mr. J. Hamilton ...

... edition of the official history of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and covers the ground between the second battle of Ypres to the battle of the Somme. Canada in War-Paint. By Captain Ralph W. Bell. (Dent.) 2s. 6d. This volume is a series of vignettes of ...

... has been fierce and stubborn, rather resembling the long drawn-out struggle which took place round Combles during the Battle of the Somme. Bullecourt occupies a fairly strong position from the military standpoint, lying on one of several low ridges which ...

... in our great war enterprise is roused by the exhibition of the official ^War Films, Britain Prepared, 1 he Battle of the Somme and The Battle of the Ancre.' under the direction of Mr. M. E. Bandman, who has been able to send home more than £8000 for ...

... British Tanks Progressive Improvement and Development of a Midget Type The dramatic appearance of the tanks in the battle of the Somme is now a matter of history. It is T open to question whether it was not an error to bring the landships into action ...

... of War News see p. 187) Mr. H. Perry Robinson, war correspondent for The Times and author of The Turning Point-- the Battle of the Somme, has written a very interesting account of the war correspondent at work in a recent issue of The Nineteenth Century ...

... forces in the Second World War. He won the DSO at Gallipoli and the Victoria Cross for his part in the operations in the Battle of the Somme in World War I t (v(( Independence Day at Sea Members ot the comple ment of the U.S. nuclear- powered aircraft carrier ...