... —sniping! Peculiar sniping, when he was using an 8-inch howitzer firing a 100 lb. shell. We remember him before the Battle of the Somme, when our guns had to be dug into pits 6 ft. deep when he worked with pick and shovel all night. keeping up morale with ...

... the objects for which the Mlles are fighting have been attained. But the Somme battle has placed beyond doubt the ability of the Allies to gain those objects. The battle of the Somme is summed Haig is these terms by General Sir Douglas Haig in a dispatch ...

... during the European War, being awarded the Military Cross in 1916. After recuperating from wounds received in the battle of the Somme he became assistant area gas officer at Montrose with the rank of captain. Upon demobilisation he taught for two years ...

... MELVIN, Chairman. Actuary (pro tem.). LA SCALA, NOIZATGATI, Dumots. Tel. No. 384, tilataaday, Oetaber 22—Laat DayTHE BATTLE OF THE SOMME. Showing approximatelv at 11.15 a.m., 12.45, 2.30, 4, 5.40, 2.15, 8.45 p.m. SHOWING ALL THE WEEKCHARLES CHAPLIN THE ...

... midterms. fighting, toiling and suffenits. written by one who was in Northern Frame as a private in the infantry from the battle of the Somme in 1916, until the signing of the armistice in 1918. As such it belong., to a sec of the Literature of the War which ...

... Royal Artillery during the first world war. He was awarded the M.C. ~f or conspicuous gallantry during the first battle of the S:omme in 1916, and received a bar to the cross a year later when he took pert in the siege of Mesaines. Also present at both ...

... fire any for six weeks. The ammunition was being stored up for the Ist Battle of the Somme.' On the night of June 14, 1916, w•e pulled out our guns and entrained for the Somme. The reason I mention this day is that that was the shortest night as Willett's ...

... into their bends, together with a large quantity of booty. PROGRESS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE SOMME. To quote a French semi-official statement, the Battle of the Somme is following a regular rhythm of successive, methodical prudent advances. On Saturday further ...

... erected at Delville Wood, near Longueval, on the Somme in memory of the South Africans who fell during the Great War and particularly at the capture of Delville Wood in July 1916 during the battle of the Somme. This memorial is to be inaugurated on Sunday ...

... In 1915 they took part in the Loos attack, and captured 0011 prisoners. breaking through three German lines. In the battle of the Somme they again covered themselves with glory. In short, if there was any glory in war the London Scottish had won it. The ...

... in the Scottish Women's Heepital at Abbaye de Roynumont, France, where the 400 beds are filled by wounded from the Battle of the Somme. The Scottish Women's Hospitals will be registered under the new War Charities Act. This appeal is made with the sanction ...

... for us how the mere handful of the Expeditionary Force grew into the finest Army the world has ever seen. It was the Battle of the Somme which first showed how formidable the Army had become. and but for Prussian discretion worsting Prussian pride, and ...