A dawn attack on 14 July resulted in the seizure of 6,000 yards (5,486m) of the German line between Longueval and Bazentin-le-Petit. Longueval was cleared by the end of the month, but the Germans in ...

Based near Albert, they undertook their work in many of the forward support areas including Montauban, Fricourt and Bazentin. In November 1916, as the winter weather set in, both battalions were moved ...

Men were more than aware of what was to happen to them and were seemingly resigned to their fate. My father was buried alive in August 1916 at Bazentin le Petit and if he hadn’t been dugout and saved ...

He was killed in action on July 22, 1916, after trying to capture a German machine gun post in the village of Bazentin-le-Petit in France. Houston’s aunt Beatrice was listed as his next of kin ...

He was killed in action on July 22, 1916, after trying to capture a German machine gun post in the village of Bazentin-le-Petit in France. Houston’s aunt Beatrice was listed as his next of kin ...

His unit landed in France in early 1916. Harry was reported missing just after the battle of Bazentin Ridge (part of the Battle of the Somme) on July 17, 1916. In October that year, yet another ...

A PROJECT is under way to restore the memorial of a commanding officer, Captain Houston Stewart Hamilton Wallace, who died while serving the Worcestershire Regiment in World War I.

However, she had received a letter from his CO, in which he stated that Houston was buried near a calvary at Bazentin in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. She identified ...

Driver was an expert ratter and in 1917, on the Somme, members of the unit took him on ratting expeditions in the old trenches at Bazentin and Longueville. At the time of the German withdrawal to the ...

1744 - Jean-Baptiste Pierr..., biologist famed most for a flawed evolutionary theory, was born in Bazentin-le-Petit, Picardy, France. 2004 - A fire in a supermarket kills 396 people and injures ...

Granada Reports journalist Paul Crone went to meet the campaigners to hear more. A campaign has been launched to restore the memorial of a captain from World War One. Captain Houston Stewart ...

This week, member of the Leader's Local Bygones Facebook group, Richard Jones, from Gwersyllt, looks at Wrexham's Hightown Barracks... The Hightown Barracks, located within the town of Wrexham ...