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| Accession number | 912L : 2090/14 |
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UNDER THE GRACIOUS PATRONAGE OF THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN . CHORAL COMMEMORATION OF THE HEROIC DEEDS OF THE FIRST SEVEN DIVISIONS , MONS TO YPRES . 1914 . ROYAL ALBERT HALL , SATURDAY , DECEMBER THE FIFTEENTH , 1917 , AT TWO THIRTY P.M. amarrecs OTH razor and With all Good Wishes for Christmas and the New Year . From Brig . - General Beale Browne and Officers 9th ( 2. R. ) Lancers . Please acknowledge receipt to Mrs Campbell , 56d . Nevern Square , S. W. 5 1919 Regimental Christmas Card 1917 . of age . Great sympathy will be felt with Private A.Somerville , of the Royal Sussex Regiment , and Mrs. Somerville , 20 , Leaf Road , Eastbourne , in the loss they have sustained by the death of their son , Second Lieutenant Henry Arthur Somerville.M.C . been killed on 28th March . They learned on Saturday that he had This gallant young officer was only 22 years He enlisted in the army in 1011 joining the Royal Field Artillery . In the following year he transferred to the 21st ( Empress of India's ) Lancers , and was attached to the 9th ( Queen's Royal ) Lancers . He went to France on 15th August , 1914 , and served in various engagements , including the retreat from ions , the Marne , the Aisne , and the first and second battles of Ypres . gassed , and recived a slight shrapnel wound in the arm , which kept him in During the second battle he was badly hospital for six weeks . In November , 1915 , he was promoted Sergeant , and when the battle of the Somme began he volunteered for service with the infantry . He served six weeks with the Royal Berkshire Regiment in the battle of the Somme , and on the 1st January 1947 , was gazetted to the Royal Sussex Regiment for services in the field . Cross for most conspicuous gallantry and good leading in the battle of He was awarded the Military Ypres on 31st July and 1st and 2nd August , 1917 , and the official record *** stated " This officer shewed wonderful energy and initiative in consolidating the captured position under very heavy enemy barrage . He Took out a party of 24 men in daylight right up to the line of the Steenbeck , and occupied four posts as an outpost line , when he came under heavy rifle and machine gun fire , having three men killed and four men wounded while getting into this position . under very heavy artillery fire , and was much troubled by enemy snipers . Hel He held this line for 24 hours spent four hours endeavouring to establish touch with the unit on his left flank , during which time he was continually sniped at . good spirit under most difficult conditions won for him the admiration His wonderfully of all ranks ! He returned home , and in November last went out again as an observer attached to the Royal Flying Corps . down Max Muller , the crack German airman , on the 9th January , and in a He and a pilot brought letter Lieutenant Somerville said of Muller " He had 38 British machines to his credit , and we were nharly the 39th " . March 28ª 19 18 |
