 | Lieut. Dimmer Repairing a Machine-Gun While Exposed to the Fire of the Advancing Prussian Guard by Allan Stewart (P) | As the Prussian Guard advanced in massed formation from the cover of a wood at Klein Zillebeke on 12th November 1914, the British machine-guns mowed them down with a storm of bullets. But the gun which Lieutenant John Henry Stephen Dimmer, of 2nd Ba...... | Original available : £25.00
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 | Lance-Corporal Stoneman Assisting in Putting Out a Rick-Fire Amid a Storm of Machine-gun Bullets by B S Bagdatopulos (P) | On the night of October 18th 1914, the enemys shells set alight two ricks at Beaupuits, the flames showing clearly to the enemy the position of the British trenches. Under heavy cross-fire from machine-guns, Lance-Corporal W H Stoneman, of 1st Duke ...... | Original available : £25.00
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 | Corporal Lappin Returning to his Trench After Having Captured a Bulgarian Flag by B S Bagdatopulos (P) | On 27th October 1915, on the Yser Canal, Corporal W H Lappin, 1st/5th Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, proceeded entirely on his own initiative and unaccompanied, to make a reconnaissance of the enemys trenches. He went over our parapet...... | Original available : £25.00
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| How Private Ross Tollerton Won His VC by Allan Stewart (P) | On 13th September 1914, the British had forced the passage of the Aisne. The following morning a general advance was begun, but our men soon came under a very heavy shell and machine-gun fire, and Captain Matheson of the Cameron Highlanders, fell se...... | Original available : £30.00
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 | The Action for Which 2nd Lt R C Leach, Reserve Officer Attached to the 1st Battalion The Kings Own Lancaster Regiment Won His VC by B S Bagdatopulos (P) | On 24th May 1915, when the enemy captured the trenches situated on the right of the Royal Lancaster Regiment, near Shell Trap Farm, north of Wieltje, it was entirely due to the individual efforts of 2nd Lieutenant Leach and a few men that the enemys...... | Original available : £25.00
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| Naik Darwan Sing Negi, The First Indian Soldier to Win The VC by Allan Stewart (P) | Naik Darwan Sing Negi, of the 1st Battalion 39th Garhwal Rifles, won the VC on the night of the 23rd-24th November 1914. The enemys line of trenches had to be taken at all costs, and a gallant little party of two officers and some Afridis, well supp...... | Original available : £25.00
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| Second Lieutenant Throssell Holding Part of a Captured Turkish Trench Against the Enemys Counter-Attacks by Allan Stewart. (P) | During the attack on August 29th 1915, made by the 10th Australian Light Horse on a section of a Turkish trench on Hill 60, Gallipoli Peninsula, which the enemy had previously recaptured, Second Lieutenant Throssell was severely wounded in several p...... | Original available : £25.00
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| German Searchlights and Very Lights Exposing Temporary Second Lieutenant Armitage and His Party While Cutting the German Wire Entanglements by Allan Stewart (P) | In preparation for a raid on the German trenches, Temporary 2nd Lieutenant William Harold Armitage, of the 9th Battalion, Alexandra Princess of Wales Own (Yorkshire Regiment), led out a party of his battalion, consisting of Sergeant E Crowther, and ...... | Original available : £25.00
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 | Trooper of the 9th Lancers 1914 by Chris Collingwood. (P) | CCP40P. Trooper of the 9th Lancers 1914 by Chris Collingwood. ...... | Original available : £400.00
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| Breaking the Hindenburg Line by J P Beadle. | The Hindenburg Line known also as the Siegfried Line was a vast system of German defences in northeastern France between Lens and past Verdun. Built over the winter of 1916 and 1917, the high command in Germany believed the Hindenburg line was was i...... | 2 print editions available from £14.00
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| The First Tank versus Tank Action by David Rowlands. | The Mark IV Tank of Lt. F. MItchell MC, 1st battalion Tank Corps engages A7V tanks at Villers-Bretonneux, 24th April 1918. ...... | 4 print editions available from £14.00
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| Backs to the Wall by Robert Gibb. | This painting was inspired by Sir Douglas Haigs order to his troops at the time of the great German offensive. Note the ghostly images of the dead comrades above the soldiers heads. This was Gibbs final battle scene, painted when he was in his eighti...... | 2 print editions available from £14.00
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| Battle of Gheluvelt, 31st October 1914 by J P Beadle. | The 2nd Battalion Worcester Regiment and South Wales Borderers arriving in the grounds of the Chateau at Gheluvelt after their historic counter attack on 31st October 1914. ...... | 2 print editions available from £14.00
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| The Suffolks at Neuve Chapel by Frank Dadd. | Soldiers of the Suffolk Regiments are seen in their trenches during the attacks at Neuve Chappell during the first world war. ...... | 2 print editions available from £14.00
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| Capture of a German Battery by Richard Caton Woodville. | German 77mm battery captured by C Company, 2nd Battalion the Manchester Regiment, 2nd April 1917 at Francilly Selency. The attacks on Francilly-Selency would prove costly and difficult to the attacking British forces. The Germans had dug in well. B...... | 1 print edition available from £45.00
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| Action of the 6th Mounted Brigade at El Muhgar by J P Beadle. | Depicting the charge of the Bucks, Berks and Dorset Yeomanry on November 13th 1917 during the Palestine campaign. ...... | 2 print editions available from £14.00
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| Sgt. Robert Bye VC, 1st Battalion Welsh Guards near Langemarck by David Rowlands. | 3rd Battle of Ypres, 31st July 1917 ...... | 3 print editions available from £30.00
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| The Courageous Twelve (Meuse Argonne Offensive, 26th September 1918) by Mark Churms | The Yanks are coming over there and on the offensive! American Doughboys from a dozen states valiantly press through the tangle of forest, overrunning German resistance as they advance, troops from Colorado, Kansas, Massachusetts, Montana, Michigan, ...... | 2 print editions available from £70.00
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| Saving the Guns at Le Cateau by Terence Cuneo. | Captain Reynold and drivers Luke and Drain saving the guns of 37th Battery from advancing German Infantry, all three were awarded the Victoria Cross. ...... | 1 print edition available from £48.00
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| Last Stand of the 5th (Gibraltar) Battery by Terence Cuneo. | 26-27th May 1918, 5th Batterys gun position was overrun by German Infantry, the Battery Commander and two subalterns rallied the surviving men and with Lewis gun and rifles attempted to beat off the attack. Only four gunners survived. ...... | 1 print edition available from £48.00
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| The 5th Lancers Re-enter Mons, November 1918 by Richard Caton Woodville. | The 5th Lancers (attached to the Canadian Corps) were the first British troops to re-enter Mons, just as they had been the last to leave Mons in August 1914. Very few of the troopers who left Mons in 1914 were there to re-enter in 1918. ...... | 2 print editions available from £14.00
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| The First VC of the European War by Richard Caton Woodville. | Captain Francis Grenfell, 9th Lancers, the first VC of World War I to be gazetted, winning the VC at Audregnies, Belgium, 24th August 1914 ...... | 1 print edition available from £48.00
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| Nery by Brian Palmer. | Action at Nery, 1st September 1914. During the fighting retreat from Mons, battery L of the Royal horse artillery bivouacked by a small town of Nery. Their temporary halt was interrupted during the early morning cavalry patrol warning of the imminen...... | 2 print editions available from £50.00
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| Death and Glory in Flanders Fields by Chris Collingwood. | The 17th Lancers in Flanders 1916. ...... | 2 print editions available from £90.00
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| To the Green Fields Beyond, Cambrai, France, 20th November 1917 by David Pentland. | At 0620 hours covered by a brief barrage from 1000 guns, Brigadier General Elles in a MkIV called Hilda led his 476 tanks against the impregnable German Hindenburg line at Cambrai. Supported by 6 infantry divisions and 4 Royal Flying Corps squadron...... | 4 print editions available from £48.00
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| The Kaisers Battle, Operation Michael, France, 21st March 1918 by David Pentland. | German Stosstruppen of the 18th Army, having broken through the British lines near St Quentin, engage secondary trench lines occupied by men of the 9th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (36th Ulster Division) . Similar attacks occurred right ac...... | 4 print editions available from £40.00
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| Battle of Cambrai, France, 20th November 1917 by David Pentland. | At 0620 hours covered by a brief barrage from 1000 guns, the tanks of C and F Battalions in MkIV tanks advanced alongside the men of the British 12th Division against the impregnable German Hindenburg line at Cambrai. Supported in the air by 4 RFC s...... | 4 print editions available from £48.00
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| Assault on Courcellette, The Somme, 15th September 1916 by David Pentland. | The village of Courcellette dominated the Somme battlefield, and it was the Canadian Corps who were given the task of taking the strongpoint. They were however aided by a new weapon, six tanks of No.1 Section, C Company, Heavy Tank Battalion. The M...... | 4 print editions available from £48.00
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| Unexpected encounter at Niergnies, France, 8th October 1918 by David Pentland. | Towards the end of the second battle of Cambrai, British Mark IV tanks of 12th Battalion confronted German captured Mark IVs. The ensuing battle was chaotic, emerging from smoke the Germans were initially mistaken as part of C Company, but at 50 met...... | 4 print editions available from £48.00
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| The Machine Guns - Battle of Amiens, France, 8th August 1918 by David Pentland. | A German machine gun team defend against the British 3rd Corps attack on the high ground north of the Somme. This was to be the start of the final Allied offensive of the war. ...... | 4 print editions available from £40.00
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| Over the Top by Jason Askew. | The 29th Division go over the top to the sound of the officers whistle to attack Beaumont Hamel during the battle of the Somme. The regiments of the 29th Division are the Middlesex Regiment, Lancashire Fusiliers, Dublin Fusiliers, Royal Fusiliers a...... | 3 print editions available from £60.00
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| Remember that you are Scottish! Aubers Ridge, 9th May 1915 by Jason Askew. | Aubers / Neuve Chapelle -1500-The 1st battalion, Black Watch, brought in to relieve the shattered 2nd Brigade, go over the top and advanced at the double across no -mans land. Suffering heavy casualties from the incessant German machine gun fire, e...... | 3 print editions available from £50.00
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| Faster Boys - Give Them Hell! Loos, September 25th 1915 by Jason Askew. | Dawn. British artillery thundered, and the territorial soldiers 15th Scottish division stormed towards the German trenches defending the coal mining village of Loos. The gas cloud that preceded the Highland advance was pendulous and largely stat...... | 3 print editions available from £50.00
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| Cameron Highlanders Capture a German Force on the Yser by Jason Askew. | This incident took place on October 23rd,1914. A party of German soldiers had been driven to take shelter in the small house. British artillery then targeted the house, making the situation of the Germans uncomfortable. Under cover of the bombardme...... | 3 print editions available from £50.00
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| The Battle of the Somme - At the German Trenches by Jason Askew. | Very few of the British soldiers made it through the barbed wire defences, and even fewer to the German trenches. By the end of the first day the British losses were 60,000 men....... | 4 print editions available from £60.00
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| Baptism of Fire - St Mihiel Salient, 12th – 15th September 1918 by David Pentland. | Renault FT 17 baby tanks of the recently formed US 304th tank brigade commanded by the young Lt. Col George S. Patton Jnr. are employed for the first time during the allied assault on the St Mihiel Salient. Leading the 344th battalion in person Patt...... | 4 print editions available from £48.00
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| Tanks on the Marne - France, 18th July 1918 by David Pentland. | Schneider CA1 Tanks of the French tenth army spearhead the successful counter offensive against the German army on the river Marne. Overhead a tenacious Junkers JI artillery spotter dogs their tracks. The Second Battle of the Marne, though not an ov...... | 4 print editions available from £48.00
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| A Saint goes to War - The Second Marne Offensive, France 18th July 1918 by David Pentland. | St. Charmond Assault tanks of the French 10th Heavy Tank battalion move through Villers-Cotterets forest in preparation for the 10th Army counterattack on the German Soissons-Rheims salient. ...... | 4 print editions available from £48.00
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| The New War Elephants, Cachy, France 24th April 1918 by David Pentland. | Fourteen A7V Sturmpanzerwagen and supporting infantry led the final push towards the strategic allied supply hub of Amiens. The panzers were divided into 3 groups, the first Skopnik with 3 tanks attacked and took Villers Bretoneux. The second group ...... | 4 print editions available from £48.00
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| German Assault on the Nimy Bridge, Mons, 23rd August 1914 by Jason Askew. | German forces begin their assault on the Nimy Bridge, 23rd August 1914. The bridge was defended by the 4th Battalion The Royal Fusiliers....... | 4 print editions available from £50.00
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| Advance into Hell by Jason Askew. | The Middlesex Regiment advance across No Mans Land during the Battle of the Somme. ...... | 3 print editions available from £40.00
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| Passchendaele by Jason Askew. | The German attack on the British trenches at Passchendaele in the rain. ...... | 3 print editions available from £65.00
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| Gallipoli - Courtneys Trench by Jason Askew. | Australian VC winner-Private Albert Jacka, 14th battalion. He killed nine Turks who had bombed and infiltrated an Australian trench at Courtneys post during the great Turkish assault on 19th May. ...... | 4 print editions available from £55.00
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| 2nd Australian Brigade fighting in Gully Ravine by Jason Askew. | The 2nd Australian Brigade were brought up to reinforce the British attempt to force the Turkish positions at Achi-baba. this action developed into the second Battle of Krithia. ...... | 4 print editions available from £70.00
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| The Great Folly of 1916 by Jason Askew. | Assault in the vicinity of Thiepval by the Ulster division-1st July 1916. The 11th Royal Irish Rifles, moving forward from the A line of trenches, and moving forward to attack the B line of trenches, the attacking infantry are preceded by Bombers -...... | 4 print editions available from £60.00
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| The Ludendorff Offensive, Spring 1918 by Jason Askew. (GL) | ...... | 2 canvas print editions available from £590.00
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 | Goodbye My Old Friend by Matania. (GL) | DHM2001GL. Goodbye My Old Friend by Matania. ...... | 3 canvas print editions available from £390.00
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 | Lance Sergeant Fred McNess VC, Scots Guards in Action Near Gincy, France 15th September 1916 By David Rowlands. (GL) | GDHM3017GL. Lance Sergeant Fred McNess VC, Scots Guards in Action Near Gincy, France 15th September 1916 By David Rowlands. ...... | 2 canvas print editions available from £250.00
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 | Sergeant John McAulay, 1st Battalion Scots Guards Winning the VC at Fontaine Notre Dame, France 27th November 1917 By David Rowlands. (GL) | GDHM3019GL. Sergeant John McAulay, 1st Battalion Scots Guards Winning the VC at Fontaine Notre Dame, France 27th November 1917 By David Rowlands....... | 2 canvas print editions available from £250.00
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 | Deutsche Infanterie bringt in der Schlacht bei Tannenberg durch Ortelsburg vor (29 August 1914) | DK0005. Deutsche Infanterie bringt in der Schlacht bei Tannenberg durch Ortelsburg vor (29 August 1914) ...... | 1 print edition available from £40.00
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 | Strassenkampfe in Shabak. | DK0006. Strassenkampfe in Shabak. ...... | 1 print edition available from £40.00
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 | Lance-Corporal M. Parker Holding Turks At Bay In A Mine Gallery. | The emergency in which Lance- Corporal Parker, of the 5th Kings Own Scottish Borderers, proved his prowess was as unexpected as formidable. Parker and his men was on the Gallipoli Peninsula on the 14th September 1915, constructing under the Turkish...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Bombardier Cook Taking Live Shells out of a Blazing Ammunition Wagon. | Bombardier C. W. Cook, of the 368th Battery, Royal Artillery, won the D.C.M. for a remarkable example of cool courage and presence of mind at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli Peninsula. On June 28th 1915, the position of his battery was discovered by T...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lance-Corporal Colgrave Rallying Indian Troops And Leading Them Into Action At Hollebeke. | On October 30th 1914, Colgraves regiment, the 5th Lancers, was extremely hard pressed near Hollebeke and a battalion of Indian infantry was sent up to support them. Their battalion came under an extremely heavy fire and soon lost all its officers, ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant-Major Sharpington Rescuing An Old Woman From A Burning Farm. | On November 6th 1914, a German set fire, near the village of Fleurbaix, to a farm which belonged to an old woman who had refused to leave it though it was always in danger of destruction. The old womans existence was known to Sergeant-Major Sharpin...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lance-Corporal McDonnell Shows What Three Brave Men Can Do Against Ten Times Their Number. | A large party of Germans in an advanced trench in a wood surprised Lance- Corporal McDonnell and two companions of the 1st Grenadier Guards when reconnoitring on the Aisne on The 23rd of September 1914. The enemy thought they had there preyed secur...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private McChord Won The D.C.M. For Rescuing Two Gassed Sappers From A Mine. | Gas is always a deadly enemy to those engaged in military mining operations. On October 25th 1915, the two companions of Private McChord, of the 12th April and Sutherland Highlanders were suddenly overcome by suffocating fumes when a long way down ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | The Great Act Of Heroism Of Privates H. G. F. Mead, J. W. Otton And A. S. S. Spencer, Of The 4th Battalion Middlesex Regiment. | On November 5th 1914, near Neuve Chapelle, about six oclock in the evening, Private Mead heard a man crying for help and fort water. The cry came from the direction of a German trench, which earlier in the day had been taken by the 1st Connaught R...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Captain Douglas Reynolds And Drivers Drain And Luke Winning The V.C. For Saving A Gun At Le Cateau. | On August 26th 1914, the Royal Field Artillery did some magnificent rearguard work and saved the infantry from destruction. The guns were fought until the advancing German masses were right on the gunners and the guns had then to be abandoned. Cap...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | The Last Stage Of Lieutenant Smyths Heroic Journey. | When only Lieutenant Smyth and Sepoy Lal Singh were left of the original eleven they reached a small stream. They were subjected to a heavy fire, and it was some time before they discovered a fordable spot. There they crossed, carrying a box of bo...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | An Early Incident Before The Occasion On Which Captain Shout Won The V.C. | After nearly three complete days of fighting in the Lone Pine trenches, during the longest and fiercest hand-to-hand struggle which had yet occurred in the Peninsula, the Turks still held a big communication trench winding almost directly to the poi...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Driver G. Smith Saving Panic Stricken Horses From A Burning Farm. | During the terrible German bombardment of Ypres and neighbourhood in April and May, it was quite impossible to find safe quarters even for hospital installations. The artillery and transport horses were continually under fire and many crises occurr...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Company Quartermaster-Sergeant Downs Working His Machine Gun From A Haystack For Five Days Under Heavy Fire. | Quartermaster-Sergeant Downs was largely responsible for the training of the machine gunners of the 1st Cheshire Regiment, who did brilliant work in the early stages of the campaign. On one occasion downs and his section were working their machine ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Quartermaster-Sergeant Downs, The Last Survivor Of His Machine Gun Section, Beats Off A German Attack And Saves The Line From Being Broken. | On another occasion, during the first German onslaught on Ypres in October and November 1914, a mass attack compelled the evacuation of the trenches to the left of the 1st Cheshires. Downs and his machine gunners strove to prevent the enemy from po...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | A Shell Struck The Ambulance Wagon, Killing One Man And Rendering Lieutenant Hincks Unconscious. | It was during in the heavy fighting at Neuve Chapelle, from the 11th to the 14th March 1915, that Lieut. A. C. Hincks, of the 26th Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. (T.F., 2nd Wessex), won the Military Cross. There were many wounded men to be attended to, ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Bombardier Dubois Repairing Telephone Wires In Gallipoli. | Mending telephone wires is an important but often a very dangerous operation. On 6th August 1915, Bombardier O. C. Dubois, 460th (Howitzer) Battery, R.F.A., spent four hours at Cape Helles, going now here, now there to repair the wires wherever the...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant Clarke Directing The Defence Of Chateau Herentage During The First Battle Of Ypres. | When the first German attack on the Ypres salient in November 1914, culminated in a charge of the Prussian Guard on November 11th, Sergeant Clarke was stationed with his troop of the 15th Hussars and a party of Turcos in the Chateau of Herentage wit...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Major Wheeler Riding To His death at The North Mound. | On the day of April 13th, Major Wheeler and his squadron (Indian Lancers) were entrusted with the task of carrying the Turkish position on the North Mound. The project was a desperate one, for the Turks were well entrenched. Major Wheeler decided ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Mined! A Wonderful Escape And Its Heroic Sequel. | On September 30th 1915, a British trench near Zillebeke was mined by the Germans and almost destroyed. Lance Corporal C. Leadbeater, of the 1/5th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (TF) was in charge of the listening post at the end of the trench at t...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Bombardier Cooper Digging Out Men Buried In A Gun Pit. | During the heavy fighting near Ploegteert, in October 1914, a battery of the R.F.A. (Royal Field Artillery) behind the crest of a hill had the misfortune to be discovered by German artillery observers and subjected to a systematic shelling. In such...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant Boulger Taking His Heavy Cable Cart Across Half A Mile Of Fire Swept Ground. | On the 30th October 1914, the Allied forces, which were advancing northeast and east of Ypres, were vigorously attacked by a large German force, but not only were all the attacks repulsed, but progress was made. It was during these operations that ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lance Corporal Gray Rescuing A Gassed Officer From A Mine Gallery. | On April 28th 1915, poisonous fumes in a mine gallery at Kemmel overcame three officers and a sergeant. Lance-Corporal Gray, of the 4th Middlesex, ordered four of his men to descend the mine and bring them up. After two officers had been saved, he...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lieutenant Martin, D.S.O., R.E., And A Small Bombing Party Holding Back The Germans At Spanbroek Molen. | Lieutenant Martin (56th Field Company Royal Engineers) gained his first distinction, the D.S.O., in the retreat from Mons, when he was wounded. Though wounded again during the battle of Neuve Chapelle he refused to retire, but heading a party of si...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Betrayed By The Flames - Acting Lance-Corporal Giles Discovered And Fired On While Assisting Two Wounded Men To The Dressing Station. | There was plenty of work for No.6 Field Ambulance, the unit to which Acting-Lance-Corporal Giles (Royal Army Medical Corps) was attached, during the desperate fighting round Ypres in October and November 1914. On one occasion it was imperative that...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Acting Lance Corporal Giles Removing Wounded From A Battery Under Heavy Fire. | On the next day, Giles (Royal Army Medical Corps) showed no less coolness and heroism in directing the work of stretcher-bearers who were removing wounded from a battery a severe bombardment. He brought up several stretcher-squads, and in spite of ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | The Recoil Of His Gun Often Threw Sergeant Bailey To The Ground. | On the 1st November 1914, at Ypres, when the guns of the 150th Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, were being continually employed in shelling the enemy, a breech mechanism of a gun at which Sergeant D. B. Bailey was working became overheated and res...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | So Near And Yet So Far, Private Nevilles Narrow Escape. | The next day, October 29th, Neville (15th Hussars) was sent with another message. He had to make his way to a point in the British lines marked by a windmill, a prominent object in the landscape, but as the road had become impassable through the en...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private Neville Receiving A Message From A Wounded Motorcyclist. | For the third day in success Private Neville (15th Hussars) had an opportunity to proving his resource in a critical situation. He was riding to the headquarters of an infantry brigade when he came upon a motorcyclist lying wounded by the roadside....... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | How Sergeant Major Croft, Single Handed, Disposed Of A Party Of Germans. | While the 5th Dragoon Guards were in the trenches near Zillebeke, at the end of February 1915, the German snipers in a wood were becoming a serious nuisance. Sergeant Croft made up his mind to get rid of this, and one evening he made his way slowly...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | How Lance Corporal C. A. Jarvis Blew Up The Bridge At Jemappes. | The duties of the Engineers are more manifold than those of any other part of the forces, and include making roads, bridges and railways, working telegraphs telephones, balloons, preparing camps, water supply, field work for attacking or defence, an...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Company-Sergeant-Major Glover Signals The Order To Cease Firing On The Retreating Bombers. | So terrible had been the effect of the artillery bombardment and the mine explosions that nearly the whole British line had been driven from its trenches, and soon Glover and his men (2nd Royal Irish Fusiliers) were almost surrounded. Standing in t...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Naik Gul Muhammad Bringing Up Reinforcements At Tsavo River Though Severely Wounded. | The splendid services of the Indian soldiers in every country ravaged by the War have been rightly recognised. Their brave conduct in action has given much pleasure, especially to the King-Emperor, by whose command many awards have been destroyed. ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private B. R. Sheil, Of The 1/8th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Capturing A German Patroller. | Covering such a long extent, as do the lines of the British and Germans in their course through Belgium, it happens that both sometimes verge on woods, which offer the same cover. For this reason it is necessary to keep a sharp look out on the enem...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lieutenant Lorrain Brodie And His Men Driving The Enemy From British Trenches At Becelaere. | On attacking the British line at Becelacre, on November 11th 1915, the enemy succeeded in capturing part of the trenches. A dangerous situation was created by their presence, as they held their ground with a strong force of men, and it appeared pro...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lieutenant N. M. S. Irwin Dashing Forward With His Men To Re-Occupy Trenches Evacuated Owing To Poison Gas. | About 3 p.m. on May 2nd 1915, a greenish-yellow cloud, betokening the terrible poison gas, came drifting forward from the German lines northeast of Ypres, and as it reached the British front men were seen to leave the trenches. Lieutenant Irwin and...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Company-Sergeant-Major Seaman Holding Back The Germans Single Handed. | When the railway was reached, it was discovered that further progress was blocked by a culvert which the Germans had barricaded in such a way that only one man could pass through the opening at a time. It was also discovered that the Germans had no...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | How Lance-Corporal Michael OLeary Won The V.C. At Cuinchy. | On February 1st 1915, in the brisk action at Cuinchy, the Germans captured a trench held by the Irish and Coldstream Guards. A tremendous storm of gun and rifle fire was poured upon the trench with a view to its recapture. During the action, Lance...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private T. Bull Hurling Bombs At The Enemy From The Parapet Of Their Trench. | At 5 a.m. on May 9th 1915, the British artillery began to bombard the German lines at Rouges Bancs. Half an hour later the attack was begun. The British went forward with great dash, capturing the enemys first line trenches and a few points beyond...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | British Wounded Being Put On board A Supply Train Under Orders Of Sergeant J. Cooke. | The most critical day in the retreat from the Marne was August 26th 1914. The dogged resistance of the British under General Smith-Dorrien at Le Cateau broke the force of the German pursuit, but as the enemy came steadily onwards, Northern France w...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sepoys Bal Bahadur Chetti And Dal Bahadur Thapa Journeying In A Dug-Out With A Message To Jasin Post. | Jasin Post, twenty miles within German East African territory was occupied in December 1914. A German attack on January 12th 1915 was beaten off, but six days later the enemy returned in great strength. On the night of January 18th Bal Bahadur Ch...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Major Ing Checking A Retirement At A Critical Moment. | On May 13th 1915, during the second Battle of Ypres, the British line gave way before the tremendous bombardment of the enemy, and as the huge high explosive shells burst on the parapets, completely shattering the trenches, survivors of the ordeal h...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant Taylor Clearing Fallen Horses From a Pontoon Bridge at Valley. | The passage of the Aisne was begun on Sunday, September 13th 1914, when the 8th British Brigade made the crossing at Vailly. On the following day the enemy made a counter attack at this point, and for a time the communications of the 3rd Division a...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | The Death Of Lance Naik Bhau Savant At Mazera. | In the military operations on the Tigris the British force advanced against Mazera, which was in the occupation of the Turks on December 7th 1914, and the enemy were driven across the river to Kurna. Lance Naik Bhau Savant, of the 110th Mahratta Li...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Second Lieutenant Robinson Conveying A Field Gun Across The YSER Canal Under Fire. | During the operations south of Pilkem, between the 6th and 8th of July 1915, the British trenches were within sixty yards of a German sap, which had to be destroyed, with about thirty yards of thick wire entanglements, to clear the way for an infant...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lieutenant-Commader Cookson Cutting the Hawsers of Dhows Placed Across the Tigris as an Obstruction. | DTE222. Lieutenant-Commader Cookson Cutting the Hawsers of Dhows Placed Across the Tigris as an Obstruction. ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lieutenant Withington Bringing a Field Gun into Action in the British Trenches Against the Enemys Sap. | DTE225. Lieutenant Withington Bringing a Field Gun into Action in the British Trenches Against the Enemys Sap. ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lieutenant Morland Making Prisoners of Eighteen Germans in a Mine at Givenchy. | In the last days of the Battle of Festubert, on May 24th and 25th 1915, the 47th Division (2nd London Territorial) succeeded in capturing some of the enemys trenches. At Givenchy on the latter day, Lieutenant Denys Max Thomson Morland, of the 3rd ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | The Gallant Exploits of Naik Sher Singh, In the Course of Which he is Wounded. | On February 14th 1915, while fighting with a force sent to quell a local rising of the Dervishes at Shimberberris, Somaliland, Naik Sher Singh, of the 23rd Sikh Pioneers, courageously volunteered to place a charge of gun cotton against the door of ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | A Company of the 9th Argylls Advancing Under Heavy Fire to Reinforce the 2nd Camerons During the Second Battle of Ypres. | Between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. on May 10th 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres, the regiment of the 9th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Territorial Force) was ordered to reinforce the 2nd Camerons with two companies. Major George James Christie ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal Potter and his Patrol Defeating the Attempt of a Squadron of German Cavalry to Surround Them.. | One day in November 1914, when the British were fighting their way to La Bassee, Corporal F. Potter, of the 15th Hussars, was sent ahead in charge of a patrol of four men. His instructions were to reconnoitre at Bour De Vile and the village beyond...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal Potter and his Men Holding at Bay an Overwhelming Force of German Cavalry. | On finding that he was faced by about two hundred of the enemy, Corporal Potter resolved to try and bluff them. He therefore sent the patrols horses back at a gallop, and by this ruse the enemy were deceived for a time into thinking that the men h...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Trumpeter Waldon Bringing a Horse to the Firing Stations at Le Cateau Under Fire. | During General Smith-Dorriens famous rearguard action at Le Cateau on August 26th 1914, Trumpeter S. F. G. Waldron, of the 37th Battery Royal Field Artillery, acted as communicating file between the captain commanding the artillery and the quarterm...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Captain Davies Leaping Across a Ditch on his Way to Assist the Wounded in a Neighbouring Trench. | On a subsequent occasion, Captain Davies with another officer, Lieutenant Richardson, bravely volunteered to cross the open ground to the trench on his left, a distance of sixty or eighty yards, to assist the wounded. As the two officers left the ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Acting Lance-Corporal Barker Assisting a Party Collected by him to Open out a Communication Trench Under Heavy Shell and Machine Gun Fire. | In the assault on September 25th 1915, of the salient of Sanctuary Wood, near Hooge, Acting Lance Corporal Barker, 1st Cheshire Field Company Royal Engineers (T.F.) was separated from his party. He however, at once assisted and superintended a par...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Captain Willis Heading a Charge by a Landing Party Through Wire Entanglements and Under Heavy Fire Near Cape Helles. | As the Lancashire Fusiliers landed on the shores of the Gallipoli Peninsula on April 25th 1915, at a point west of Cape Helles, a deadly fire assailed them from hidden machine guns. Many of the men fell, but the survivors, with undaunted courage, ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Naik Safdar Ali And Sepoy Sher Khan Advancing Along The West Bank Of The Suez Canal, Ahead Of Their Comrades To Attack The Turks. | In the operations on the Suez Canal at the beginning of February 1915, the Turks delivered their main attack at a point opposite Tussum, just south of Lake Timseh. On February 3rd, Naik Safdar Ali and Sepoy Sher Khan, of the 62nd Punjabis, led the...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant Kirkcaldy Bringing Up Fresh Horses, Under A Terrific Shell Fire To Save A Transport Wagon At Veldhoek. | The crisis of the first great battle at Ypres was reached on October 31st 1914. Fierce began early in the morning along the Ypres-Menin road, and in time the attack developed in great force against the village of Gheluvelt. To the north of it the...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Gunner Pond And Three Comrades Rescuing Horses From A Lane Swept By Shell-Fire. | When on September 15th 1914, a hurricane of German shells burst over the British guns, stationed at a stone quarry on a hill near Vendresse, no cover could be found except by going to the bottom of the hill down a narrow lane. But a deadly fire sw...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Gunner Pond And His Fellow Artillerymen Wheeling Guns To Cover Under Heavy Fire. | Having removed the horses, Gunner Pond at once reported himself to one of the surviving officers, by whom he was told that all except two of his comrades had reached cover at the foot of the hill. He was then ordered to go back and tell a sergeant ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal Bassett Laying A Telephone Line At Chunuk Bair Under Heavy And Continuous Fire. | At ten oclock on the morning of august 7th 1915, the New Zealand Infantry Brigade attacked and carried Rhododendron Ridge, which joins the main ridge just west of Chunuk Bair. Later in the day the main ridge was reconnoitred, and in full daylight ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | The Reverend P. W. Guinness. Chaplain To The Forces Riding With A Message Under Heavy Fire To The Headquarters Of The 3rd Cavalry Brigade. | During the fighting about Kruistraat on November 5th 1914, Major Dixon of the 16th Lancers was mortally wounded. The Reverend Percy Wyndham Guinness, B.A., Chaplain to the forces, the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, gallantly went on his own initiative into ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lance-Corporal Joynson Heading An Attack And Driving The Enemy Back With Bombs | On Creeping into the enemys fire line trenches in the attack near Hooge, on June 16th 1915, Lance-Corporal Joynson, of the 1st battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, met a British officer who was trying to find men for a bombing party. Going together...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Subadar Sabal Singh And Lance-Naik Net Singh Climbing A Wall At The Head Of Their Comrades To Storm A Turkish Stronghold At Sahil. | On November 16th 1914, soon after the opening of the Persian Gulf campaign, news reached the British Force that the Turkish garrison of Basra was advancing to give battle, and as the position of European in the city appeared to be precarious, the ad...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private Wilson Working The Telephone In An Abandoned Trench Under Heavy Fire. | This was one of the fine exploits, which marked the bitter fighting round Hooge on august 9th 1915, and the following days. On the 11th a telephone dug out was blown in, and both the operators were wounded. Private S. Wilson of the 1st East Kents...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Subadar Dunga Rawat Bringing Up Troops To The River At Kurna, Under Very Heavy Fire. | During the fighting on December 7th 1914, in the operations of the Persian Gulf Expeditionary Force at Kurna, Subadar Dunga Rawat, of the 120th Rajputana Infantry, with half the double company, which was about two hundred yards in the rear, reached ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Driver Brown Returning With wounded on horseback From The Firing Line. | During an engagement in which guns had been withdrawn from action, Driver F. S. Brown, of the 80th battery Royal Field Artillery, gallantly took two horses up to the front, and waited there, under heavy fire, for the wounded, which were being dress...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Havildar Ghulam Nabi, Lance-Naik Nur Dad And Sapper Ghulam Haidar Swimming The Tigris To Prepare A Flying Bridge. | At Kurna on December 8th 1914, volunteers were called for to swim across the Tigris, about 150 yards wide, carrying with them a line to the opposite bank. Havildar Ghulam Nabi, Lance-Naik Nur Dad and Sapper Ghulam Haidar, all of No. 17 Company, 3rd...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private Skinner And A Comrade Crawling From Their Trench At Chunk Bair To Extinguish A Strange Light. | Towards dawn on the morning of August 9th 1915, Private Henry Devenish Skinner, of the 14th South Otago Regiment, N.Z.R., saw from his trench at Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli Peninsula, a light burning a short way in front. Thinking that it might possibly...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private Skinner Crawls Into A Gully To Look For Reinforcements, But Finds The Place Filled With Dead & Dying Men. | Skinner had received a head wound early in the day, but at three oclock in the afternoon he gallantly offered to carry a dispatch to Divisional Headquarters and a message to reinforcements, which were believed to be stationed in a hollow near by. H...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal Windell Breaking-Up The Enemys Attack By The Fire Of His Machine-Gun From The Roof Of A house Near Neuve Chapelle. | With hastening with an officer and a private to the roof of a house near Neuve Chapelle to recover a Maxim gun, Corporal John William Windell of the 2md Battalion South Lancashire Regiment, saw from the attic some of the enemy digging themselves in,...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Risadar Santa Singh, Dafadar Bisham Singh And Sowar Buda Singh Charging To Rescue Captain Willoughby, Who Was Surrounded By Arab Horsemen. | In the Persian Gulf operations the British Force hoped to have the Arabs as allies against the Turks, whose rule had never been congenial to the Arabs. The appearance of the red and white flags of the Arabs with the Turkish troops, however, caused ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Second Lieutenant Vernon Crawling, Under Heavy Fire, To A German Aeroplane, Brought Down just Behind The British Front Line. | When a German aeroplane was brought down close behind the British frontline trenches on October 26th 1915, the enemy began shelling the spot in order to destroy the machine. Second Lieutenant Stuart Arthur Vernon, of the 3rd Battalion The Border Re...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Havildar Muhammad Azim Steadying His Men Under A Hot Fire At Serapeum After Being Wounded. | At Serapeum on February 4th 1915, during the operations on the Suez Canal, the enemy made signs of surrender, and then, apparently, treacherously fired on a company of Indian troops when close to their trench. Havildar Muhammad Azim, of the 92nd Pu...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sepoy Khudadad Workingta Machine Gun After The Rest Of The Gun Detachment Had Been Killed. | On October 31st 1914, the first battle of Ypres reached its most critical stage. For a time General Allenby held the whole lne from Klein Zillebeke to Hollebeke, with only his cavalry and two exhausted battalions of the 7th Indian Brigade. While n...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Naik Sar Amir Leading Back Two Mules Laden With Kit To His Regiments New Line At Hollebeke, Under Heavy Fire. | The Germans in overwhelming numbers rushed the trench occupied by the machine gun section of the 129th Duke of Connaughts Own Baluchis at Hollebeke early on the afternoon of October 31st 1914. Naik Sar Amir had been up to the trench to see whether ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lance-Naik Guman Singh, Riflemen Kheta Ram, Dhanna Ram And Maula Dad Bringing Back Ammunition Under Heavy Shell And Rifle Fire At Kurna. | At Kurna on December 4th 1914, a machine gun section was very heavily engaged with the enemy across the Tigris. When orders were given for the machine guns to retire, four men and the officer commanding the machine gun section were left to take bac...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Acting Sergeant Pike Fresh Supplies of Bombs Under Heavy Shellfire To A Bombing Party In A Captured German Trench. | On reaching the German trenches, on the occasion of the British attack at Rouges Bancs on May 9th 1915, the bombing party drove the enemy down the trench for about one hundred yards. They ran short of bombs however, and Acting Sergeant Pike of the ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant Hayward Leading His Men Across An Orchard, Near Festubert, To Attack The German Lines. | During the afternoon of Sunday, May 16th 1915, Sergeant Hayward of the 7th London Regiment, received orders to reinforce a communication trench captured from the Germans near Festubert, earlier in the day. On reaching the trench they proceeded alon...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Bombardier Nelson Working A Field Gun Single Handed And Under Heavy Fire. | An attack from Cape Helles, on the shores of the Dardanelles, was begun on August 6th 1915, in support of movements on the Gallipolis Peninsula. When every other man attached to one of the field guns had been killed or wounded during the fighting o...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private Bushby Holding At Bay Two Germans who attempted to Bayonet Him as He Was Digging Out A Comrade. | Besides assisting wounded men on May 8th 1915, out of a trench at Hooge, which was in the hands of the enemy, Private E. J. Bushby of Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry, gallantly attempted to rescue a comrade who had been half buried in the...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lieutenant Brooke Leading An Attack Under Rifle And Machine Gun Fire To Recapture A Lost British Trench. | On October 31st 1914, the day of the great German onslaught in the first battle of Ypres, Lieutenant James Anson Otho Brooke, of the 2nd Battalion The Gordon Highlanders, was sent across with a message from the right flank to the centre of the defen...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lieutenant Brooke Leading An Attack Under Rifle And Machine Gun Fire To Recapture A Lost British Trench. | As Sergeant E. Chappell, of the 7th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps, was working a machine gun during the desperate fighting at Hooge on July 30th 1915, a shell burst on the gun emplacement, completely wrecking it. He thereupon placed on the wrec...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private Callf Pulling A Box Ammunition Out Of A Bomb Store Set Alight By The Bursting Of A Shell. | On September 25th 1915, four attacks, which were secondary to the main British attack in the south, were undertaken between the south of the Ypres salient and the La Passee Caral. The main British attack was, in a sense, made in support of the grea...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | The German attack on the Nimy Bridge At Mons. | The defence of the Nimy Bridge at Mons on August 23rd 1914 was one of the gallant episodes of the first days of the war. From eight oclock in the morning, when the Germans launched the first infantry attack, a single company under Captain Ashburner...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private Godley Working A Machine Gun In Defence Of The Ghlin Bridge At Mons. | While Captain Ashburner and his company were engaged in a struggle against overwhelming odds at the Nimy Bridge, Captain Byng and his men were fighting with equal valour to hold the Ghlin Bridge. The pressure was tremendous and the Germans made con...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Second Lieutenant Dallas-Moor Rallies A Detachment Which Had Momentarily Broken Before A Furious Turkish Assault. | The Allies made a third great attempt to capture the heights of Achi Baba and Krithia on June 4th 1915, and after a hard struggle an advance was made of abut five hundred yards on a front of three miles, and two lines of Turkish trenches were occup...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal Schultz Dressing Wounded Under Heavy fire During The Second Battle of Ypres. | During the second battle of Ypres, Corporal Sam Schultz, of the 10th Canadian Battalion, was in charge of about ten other medical orderlies and fatigue men at a dressing station near Wieltje. On the night of April 24th 1915, the house, which was cl...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Captain Johnstone Guiding A Couple Of Rafts Filled With Wounded Across The Aisne At Missy Under Heavy fire. | All through the thick of the fighting on September 14th 1914, Captain William Henry Johnstone, of the Royal Engineers, guided a couple of rafts to and fro across the Aisne under heavy fire. Returning from one side with the wounded he carried back t...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant Wilkie Leads His Men On To The Top Of A German Parapet. | During the operations against the Aubers Ridge on May 9th 1915, Sergeant R. Wilkie, of the 1st Battalion Royal Highlanders, gallantly led his section on to the top of the German parapet at Rue du Bois. He did not retire from this dangerous position...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | The Famous Landing From The River Clyde At V Beach. | At 6.10 a.m. on April 25th 1915, the River Clyde struck V Beach, and the hopper went ahead and grounded on the port bow, in the charge of Midshipman Drewry. In the midst of very dangerous firing from the opposite shore, Drewry jumped over the bow a...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Midshipman Malleson Jumping With a Line From A Barge to Link up Another Barge Which Was Drifting. | Lieutenant Morse and Midshipman Drewry were on board the barge, which lay nearest to the shore when a shot severed the rope by which the barges were lashed, again setting them adrift. Midshipman Drewry was hit in the head by a fragment of shell, bu...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Temporary Lieutenant Wilbur Dartnell Sacrifices His Life In Staying With His Wounded Men. | During a mounted infantry engagement near Maktau in East Africa, on September 3rd 1915, the enemy pressed forward to within a few yards of the British force, and it became impossible to get the more severely wounded men away. Temporary Lieutenant W...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sepoy Hukam Singh Swimming Across A Creek Under The Enemys Fire To Rescue A Drowning Comrade. | A reconnaissance by a force of one hundred of the 120th Rajputana Infantry, under Captain Mainwaring White, at Kurna on January 7th 1915, developed into a skirmish with a large body of Arabs, who attempted to cut off a portion of the party. This mo...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant Harvey Collecting The Wounded And Placing Them in an Ambulance Wagon Under Heavy Fire. | Following their great attack of October 31st 1914, the Germans made yet another supreme effort on November 11th to break through the British lines in front of Ypres. For the final stroke the 1st and 4th Brigade of the Prussian Guard were brought up...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private Day Helping A Comrade Out Of A Watercourse At Festubert Under Heavy Fire. | During the British advance at Festubert on May 16th 1915, one of the men fell into a watercourse and the nature of its banks prevented him from getting out by him. Private A. E. Day of the 7th London Regiment, at once went to help of his comrade an...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lance Corporal Holmes Takes The Place Of A Wounded Driver And Assists In Driving A Gun Out Of Action Under Heavy Fire. | In the afternoon of August 26th 1914, Von Kluck began to use the superior numbers of his army in a great enveloping on both British at Le Cateau. Some of the German batteries took up positions from which they were able to enfilade the British line,...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private Lavin Grappling With A Turkish Bomber In A British Sap At Suvla Bay, Gallipoli. | While on patrol duty in front of the British lines at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli on the night of November 9th 1915. Private James Lavin of the 15th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers saw a Turkish bomber creep into a British sap. Lavin at once crawled from...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lance-Naik Biaz Gul Bringing In A Wounded Man To The British Trenches Under Heavy Fire. | On December 12th 1914, Lance Naik Biaz Gul get out of his trench and crossed the open ground to a wounded man lying thirty yards from the enemys trenches. A heavy fire was opened on him as he carried the man back over a distance of one hundred yard...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lieutenant Philips Rushing Out Under Heavy Fire from The British Trenches At Suvla Bay To Rescue A Wounded Officer. | Seeing an officer, Captain Shenston of the 1/7th Essex Regiment, lying wounded about seventy yards from the British trenches at Suvla Bay on August 14th 1915, Lieutenant C. A. Phillips, who was in charge of a machine gun section of the 1/4th Welsh R...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal Brown And Lance-Corporal Dobson Dragging A Wounded Man Across The Open To The British Lines Under Fire. | At Chavanne on September 28th 1914, during the last days of the battle of the Aisme, three men were sent out to reconnoitre in a thick mist. The German lines were very close, and the mist suddenly lifted. Two of the men were instantly shot, but th...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant Coxon Shoots Two Of A Party Of Three Germans Who Had Attacked Him During An Attack On Their Trenches. | On the night of December 15th 1915, a British bombing party carried out an attack against the German trenches at Armentieres. After bombing into the trench Sergeant J. W. Coxon of the 8th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry, was attacked by three Ger...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal Allpress Telephoning Observations To His Battery Though Alone And Surrounded By The Enemys. | During the night of May 1st 1915, the Turks in one great onslaught rushed the first and second line trenches of the Allies in an effort to drive them from the Gallipoli Peninsula. At a forward observation point in the front-line trench at Stone Rid...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Temporary Second-Lieutenant Stout Firing A Machine Gun While Standing On Corporal Testers Back. | On hearing that a number of the enemy were working close to the British lines. Temporary Second-Lieutenant Frank Moxon Stout, attached to the 20th Hussars, took Corporal G. Tester, of the same regiment, and a light machine gun to a saphead. Then h...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | A Grenade Exploding Which Temporary Lieutenant Knox Was about To Pick Up And Fling Out Of The Trench. | While a West gun was in action in one of the British trenches a German grenade dropped on the parapet in dangerous proximity to two men. Seeing that they could not possibly get under cover, Temporary Lieutenant Robert Uchtred Eyre Knox, of the 6th ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Captain Barber Surprising a Turkish Sentry in a Hostile Listening Tunnel. | An opening having been driven into a hostile listening tunnel, Captain Charles Stanley Barber, of the 3rd Field Company Australian Engineers, crawled through with a few men on hands and knees. Captain Barber then surprised the Turkish sentry, and b...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Battery-Quartermaster-Sergeant Mitchell And His Men Retreating down The Road To Paissy After Being Ordered To Leave Their Guns. | The order to leave their guns and retire to the village came just in time. Battery-Quarter Sergeant Mitchell and his men had crossed the sunken Road in their rear and were descending the slope, when a howitzer shell burst on one of the guns, smashi...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Armoured Motor cars, under the command of the Duke of Westminster, charging the Bedouin Camp at Birazizia. | On March 14th 1916, when the Senussi camp had been located at Birazizia, twenty miles south of Sollum, the Duke of Westminster ordered all but two of his armoured motor cars to turn off the Dorna road to the south, and dash forward in line over the ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | The Duke of Westminster and his armoured cars dash to the rescue of shipwrecked crews seized by the Senussi. | On March 17th 1916, information was received that the Senussi at Bir Hakim was holding a number of shipwrecked men, who had been landed on the Cyrenaica Coast of North Africa, as prisoners, seventy miles from Sollum. At 3 a.m. therefore nine of the...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Second Lieutenant Hallowes firing at the enemy from the open as they advanced down a communication trench. | On July 19th 1915, the British mined and destroyed a German redoubt at the west end of the Hooge defences, and also captured a small part of the trenches. They were, short of bombs, and in consequence the enemy were able to advance down a communica...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Second Lieutenant Hallowes encouraging his men, as he lay mortally wounded. | For six days Second Lieutenant Hallowes had shown the greatest bravery in the face of danger. Not only did he mount the parapet of his trench under heavy fire, but also carried out more than one reconnaissance of the German position, and when bombs...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Second Corporal Daniell clearing a fallen tree from a road under heavy shellfire. | For his conspicuous devotion to duty throughout the campaign, Second Corporal T. A. Daniell of the First Field Squadron Royal Engineers has been awarded the D.C.M. On one occasion a tree fell across a road in the way of some armoured cars, and he a...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Jemadar Ram Karan leading his troop under heavy rifle fire against the enemy who were retiring. | During the retirement of the Turkish forces at Mezera, Mesopotamia, on January 30th 1915, Jemadar Ram Karan, of the 33rd Queen Visitors Own Light Cavalry, led his troop over marshy ground against several groups of the enemys riflemen. The Jemadar a...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lieutenant De Pass bombing the enemy after entering one of their Saps. | On November 24th 1914, Lieutenant Frank Alexander de Pass of the 34th Prince Albert Victors Own Poona horse, gallantry entered a German sap near Festubert, and succeeded in destroying a traverse while being bombed by the enemy. He subsequently resc...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private Chillingworth assisting in bombing the enemy from a trench, which they had captured. | On Octber 8th 1815, the enemy attacked with great determination along the trenches occupied by the 3rd Battalion Coldstream guards, near Loos, and came pouring into a trench on the left of that occupied by Private Chillingworth and five other men. ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Acting Second Corporal OBrien Descending a shaft with an officer to search for the enemy. | Close to their front line of trenches, and not far from the Hulluch quarries the British discovered a shaft. On October 16th 1915, a sentry at the shaft reported that he had seen two of the enemy moving along a gallery leading out of it. In compan...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lance Corporal Handley seizing a grenade, the fuse of which was nearly burnt, to hurl it over the parapet. | While a party of about ten grenadiers were throwing grenades into the enemys trenches by means of a catapult, the strand of the catapult broke and a powerful grenade, the fuse of which was nearly burnt, dropped into the trench. Lance Corporal W. Ha...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Privates Martin and Burrell bringing ammunition across open ground under heavy shellfire. | On the afternoon of April 26th 1915, during the second battle of Ypres, the Northumberland Infantry Brigade advanced against St Julien, and for a time occupied the southern part of the village. The brigade eventually occupied a line a short way to ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant Davies and Second Corporal Perry repairing a barrel pier under heavy shellfire. | In circumstances demanding the greatest courage and coolness, sergeant O Davies and Second Corporal F. G. Perry, of the 1st Wiltshire Army Troops Company, Royal Engineers (T.F.) set to work under heavy shellfire to repair a barrel pier across a cana...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Bombardier Horlock laying his gun after having been twice wounded. | On September 15th 1914, during the battle of the Aisne, Bombardier Ernest George Harlock, of the 113th Battery, Royal field Artillery, was twice wounded while his battery was in action under heavy shellfire near Vendresse. He perished, however, on ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Major Hansen reconnoitring the coast near Suvla Bay. | On September 9th 1915, just one month after the gallant exploit which gained him the V.C. Captain now Major, Hansen was awarded the M.C. for a most daring reconnaissance along the coast in the neighbourhood of Suvla Bay. Stripping him and carrying...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant Bostock attending to the wounded of a convoy of which he was in charge under heavy fire. | While proceeding along a road a convoy of fourteen wagons was heavily shelled, some men being wounded and several horses killed and badly injured. Sergeant G Bostock, of the 1/2nd North Midland Brigade Ammunition Column, royal Field Artillery was i...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lance Sergeant Belcher and his men dispersing the enemy by rapid firing. | Early on the morning of May 13th 1915, the enemy opened a very fierce and continuous bombardment on an advanced breastwork, south of the Wieltje-St Julien toad, frequently blowing it in. Lance Sergeant Douglas Walter, of the 1/5th (City of London) ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Driver Burberry driving wagons through a town under heavy shellfire. | On several occasions Driver P Burberry of the Army Service Corps, volunteered to drive convoy wagons through a town under heavy shellfire. He showed great coolness and bravery, and was awarded the D.C.M. ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sapper Wells working a searchlight under heavy and continuous rifle fire. | The battle which began at Shaibs, turkey in Asia 12th 1915m, had as its ibject the capture of Basra. Though his searchlight was exposed to heavy and continuous rifle fire on the night of April 13th-14th Sapper C. A. Wells of the Searchlight Section...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Driver Biddulphs Gun is brought to a momentary standstill. | When galloping forward to take up a position in close support of infantry, driver A Biddulph of the Base Details, Royal Horse Artillery (formerly T Battery) was wounded, as were also his leading horses. ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Driver Biddulph driving his gun into action. | Having taken out the wounded horses, after he himself had been wounded, Driver Biddulph drove his gun into action and then took away the limber. He was awarded the D.C.M. for conspicuous gallantry. ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | A motor wagon, which private Clements was driving narrowly escaping being blown to bits. | For great coolness and bravery displayed by him while under fire since the beginning of the war, Private T. R. Clements, of the Army Service Corps, has gained the D.C.M. On one occasion he made no less than fourteen journeys with signal stores thro...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Piper McLennan advancing in an attack at Gallipoli and playing his pipes to encourage the men. | On July 21st 1915, a Turkish was captured at Gallipoli. To the great encouragement of the men, Piper K. McLennan, of the 1/7th (Blythswood) Battalion, highland Light Infantry, advanced with the attacking line, playing his pipes. During the attack ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private Adams going to the assistance of the wounded in a motor ambulance which had run into a shell hole while under fire. | While on its way to the dressing station, a motor ambulance, which was full of wounded, ran into a shell hole. Private L. A. Adams, of the Army Service Corps, assisted to remove the wounded while under shellfire, and when the car had been hauled ou...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private Brown bombing the enemy from the top of a barricade. | Mounting a barricade in a captured German trench at great risks to himself, Private T Brown, of the 3rd Battalion (formerly of the 1st) Gordon Highlanders, began to hurl bombs among the enemy, and continued to do so until they retired. He was wound...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private Johnson Carrying off the sights and breechblock of a British gun. | During the fierce fighting at Neuve Chapelle on October 27th 1914, the men of the West Kent Regiment were forced to fall back, and in the retirement they abandoned a field gun. Recognising that it might be turned to deadly effect against themselves...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private Wilson Bayoneting a German, one of four prisoners who attempted to escape from him. | While four of the enemy were being marched off after being taken prisoners single-handed by Private R Wilson, of the 2nd Battalion. The Irish Rifles, one of them turned and threw a bomb at him. Three of them dashed off immediately. But having qui...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lance Corporal tombs dragging back a severely wounded man by means of a rifle sling placed round his own neck and the mans body. | Seeing wounded men lying about one hundred yards in front of the British trenches at Rue du Bois, on June 16th 1915, Lance Corporal Joseph tombs, of the 1st Battalion, The Kings (Liverpool Regiment) crawled out repeatedly under a very heavy shell an...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Second Lieutenant Rochfort picks up a bomb, which was about to explode, and hurls it from the trench. | While a party of men was at work in a communication trench between Cambrin and La Bassee at 2 a.m. on the morning of August 3rd 1915, a bomb from a German trench mortar landed on the side of the parapet, close to them. Second Lieutenant George Arth...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Second Corporal smith propping up part of a mine gallery to ensure the rescue of his comrades. | On a countermine being exploded by the enemy, the men at the face of the mine, of which Second Corporal G Smith, of the 176th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers, was in charge, were buried. Second Corporal smith was thrown about fifteen feet down ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private Torrance pumping air into a mine under heavy fire. | One pump had already been damaged, and another was in danger from heavy shellfire. But Private J Torrace, of the 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers (attached 9th Brigade Mining Section) remained at the head of a mineshaft, working the remaining a...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Regimental Sergeant Major Ryder rescuing a comrade who had fallen from his horse with his foot caught in a stirrup. | Seeing a comrade in danger of serious injury owing to his having fallen from his horse with his foot caught in a stirrup, Regimental Sergeant Major, 21st Lancers, picked him up and placed him on his own horse. He then charged through the enemy who ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Gunner Rafferty carrying a wounded woman to safety from a farmhouse, which was being shelled. | As the enemy were shelling a farm, on which the men of a battery of artillery had been billeted, a shell struck a room full of women and children. A child was killed, and nearly everyone else was wounded and panic-stricken. Leaving their dugouts, ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Colonel Souter heading a charge of the Dorset Yeomanry against Gaafer Pashas defeated army at Agagia. | As the Dosrest Yeomanry galloped forward to charge the retreating enemy at Agagia on the afternoon of February 26th 1915, three maxime came into action against them, but the men were splendidly led and faced the fire magnificently. When fifty yards...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal wheeler dragging a wounded cyclist scout into the shelter of a ditch under the enemys fire. | On October 17th 1915, corporal Harold Ernest Wheeler, of the 2nd Kings Own Scottish Borderers, had just ridden with a patrol, consisting of a Lance Corporal and ten men of the 5th Divisional Cyclist Company, into the village of Lorgies in anticipati...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Captain Read, though partially gassed, rallying his men who were disorganised and retiring. | Although partially gassed during the first attack near Hulluch on the morning of September 25th 1915, Captain Anketell Moutray Read, of the 1st Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment, went out several times in order to rally p[arties of different ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lance Corporal Finlay leading the survivors of his bombing party towards the German trenches near the Rue Du Bois. | While the British artillery was shelling the German trenches near the Rue du Bois, in preparation for the advance on Sunday May 9th 1915, Lance Corporal David Finlay, of the 2nd Battalion. The Black Watch, Royal Highlanders, headed a bombing party ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Driver Caley towing back, under fire a car, which had broken down. | An ambulance car having broken down at the first line of the old enemy trenches. Driver G. E. Caley, of the Army Service Corps (attached Royal Army Medical Corps) assisted in the taking up another car. On arriving he helped to load the wounded on ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant Gannon assisting an officers orderly to bring his wounded master under very heavy fire. | As the 2nd Munsters fell back from the attack on the enemys trenches, near the Rue du Bois on Sunday May 9th 1915, many fell or wounded, or else wandered helplessly about under the enemys appalling fire. Seeing an officers orderly trying to carry h...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Captain Ranken attending to the wounded after his thigh and leg had been shattered. | In tending the wounded in the trenches under rifle and shrapnel fire at Hautvesnes on September 19th 1914, and in continuing to do so on September 20th after his thigh and leg had been shattered, Captain Harry Sherwood Ranken, of the Royal Army Medi...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal Burt wrenching out the fuse of a German bomb, which had fallen into his trench. | On September 27th 1915, the company of which Corporal Alfred Alexander Burt, of the 1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment (Territorial Force) was attached had lined up preparatory to an attack, when a large minenwerfer bomb fell into the trench. Cor...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private Harris throwing himself on a bomb to save a comrade. | Private W. B. Harris, of the 29th Canadian Infantry Battalion, was throwing a bomb when his foot slipped, and the grenade fell on the side of a traverse where the rest of a grenade class were standing. They all got away except one man. Private Har...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Acting Sergeant Raynes putting his smoke helmet on Sergeant Ayres following the explosion of a gas shell. | On October 11th 1915, Acting Sergeant John Crawshaw Raynes, of A Battery, the 7th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, went out under an intense fire at Fosse 7 de Bethune to assist Sergeant Ayres, who had been wounded. Having bandaged him, Sergeant Ray...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sepoy Chatta Singh digging cover, under fire, for his wounded officer after binding up his wounds. | Leaving cover, Sepoy Chatta Singh, of the 9th Bhopal Infantry, went to the assistance of his commanding officer, which was wounded and helpless in the open. He bound up the officers wounds and then dug cover for him with his entrenching tools, bein...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant Tuersley running to assist a wounded Corporal half of whose leg had been blown off by a shell. | On working his way out of the debris of a parapet at Fleurbaix in which he had been buried on the afternoon of November 9th 1914, Sergeant Charles Leonard Tuersley, of the 1st Royal Fusiliers, heard a man calling from a trench near by. On running r...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Provisional Farrier Sergeant Cussens extricating horses from stables in which a shell had burst. | For conspicuous gallantry and coolness on November 5th 1914, at Ypres in extricating the horses after a shell had burst in the stables, Provisional Farrier-Sergeant T Cussens, of the army service corps, was awarded the D.C.M. The shell killed six m...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant Ayres extricating a sub section of field artillery from a position in which it was suffering severe losses. | On March 3rd 1915, during the operations on the Persian Gulf, an attempt was made by the British to reconnoitre the Turkish position west of Aswaz, on the Karun River. The enemy was found to be present in overwhelming numbers, a force of 12,000 men...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal Meekosha, assisted by Privates Johnson, Sayers and Wilkinson, digging out men who had been buried in their trench by shellfire. | On November 19th 1915, Corporal Samuel Meekosha, of the 1/6th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Territorial force) was with a platoon of about twenty non commissioned officers and men, who were holding an isolated trench near the Yser. During a v...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Privates Druall and Smith clearing away the wounded from a sap which was unprotected and exposed to heavy fire. | Following the capture of a Turkish position at Gallipoli on July 21st 1915, ammunition, sandbags and water were urgently needed, and the only means of communications was a shallow sap, unprotected and blocked with dead and wounded. But Privates J D...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Major Warren removing cartridges from a blazing ammunition wagon at great ersonal risk. | When one of his battery wagons had been set on fire by a shell near Croix Barbie, on September 16th 1915, and when both the wagon body and a cartridge were blazing, Major Robinson Warren, of the 73rd Battery, Royal field Artillery, removed the remai...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private Holmes driving a motor ambulance in the reverse for four hundred yards while under fire. | While driving a motor ambulance up to bring in some wounded near Hulluch on September 26th 1915, Private J Holmes of the Army Service Corps (attached to the 23rd Field Ambulance) was fired upon by the enemy. He drove the car in the reverse for four...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Colour Sergeant Hall falls mortally wounded in attempting to rescue a wounded comrade. | On April 23rd 1915, a wounded man, who was lying some fifteen yards from a British trench in the neighbourhood of Ypres, called for help, and Company Sergeant Major Frederick William Hall, of the 8th Canadian Battalion, endeavoured to reach him in t...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private A. E. Walker Assisting A Wounded Comrade From A Burning Church, Which Was Being Used As A Hospital. | During the battle of Le Cateau, on August 26th 1914, the 4th Middlesex held the village of Audencourt under a terrific bombardment. Many men were wounded, and they were taken into the village church, which was used as a hospital. The enemys shells...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private W. F. Faulds Carries Back A Wounded Officer, Lieutenant Craig, To His Trench Across Open Ground Between The British And German Lines. | A bombing party attempted to rush across the ground between the British and enemy trenches, but in doing so the officer, Lieutenant Craig, and the majority of his men were killed or wounded. Lieutenant Craig was unable to move, and in full daylight...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lance-Corporal W. D. Fuller Kills With A Bomb The Leader Of A Party Of Germans Who Were Endeavouring To Escape. | Seeing a party of the enemy endeavouring to escape along a communication trench at Neuve Chapelle in March 12th 1915. Lance-Corporal Wilfred Dolby Fuller, of the1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards, ran towards them and killed the leading man with a bom...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private S. Heron Assisting The Royal Engineers to Destroy The Canal Bridge At Jemappes. | On August 23rd 1914, Private S. Heron, of the 1st Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, rendered great assistance to the Royal Engineers who were preparing to destroy the canal bridge at Jemappes, whilst under heavy fire. For his conspicuous courage an...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | The Rev. W. R. F. Addison Carries A Wounded Man To The Cover Of A Trench Under Heavy Rifle And Machine Gun Fire. | The Rev. William Robert Fountaine Addison, temporary Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, Army Chaplain Department, carried a wounded man to the cover of a trench, and assisted several others to the same cover, after binding up their wounds under heav...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private Cooke Continues To Fire His Machine Gun After Every Member Of The Gun Team Had Been Killed Or Wounded. | After a Lewis gun had been disabled, Private Cooke, of the Australian Infantry, was ordered to take his gun and gun team to a dangerous part of the line. Here he did fine work, but came under very heavy fire, with the result that finally he was the...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private J. Regan Attacks A Party Of Germans With His revolver, Drives Them Back, And Saves A Machine Gun. | When Private J. Regan, of the Machine gun Corps, was with another gunner at an advanced gun post, the enemy managed to work down communication trench, and throw a bomb, which killed the gunner before the gun could be mounted. Private Regan at once ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Captain C. C. Foss, D.S.O, And A Bombing Party of Eight Recapturing A British Position And Fifty-Two Germans. | At Neuve Chapelle on March 12th 1915, the enemy captured a part of one of the British trenches. A counter attack, made with one officer and twenty men, failed, and all but two of the party were killed or wounded in the attempt. Thereupon Captain C...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lance-Naik Said Akbar, Havildar Yakub Khan Sepoy Daulat Khan, with Captain Acworth, Bombing The Enemy As They Proceeded Along their Trenches. | At Festubert on November 23rd and 24th 1914, Lance-Naik Said Akbar, Havildar Yakub Khan and Sepoy Daulat Khan, of the 57th Wildes Rifles (Frontier Force), accompanied Captain Acworth along the enemy trenches, throwing bombs over the traverses as the...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Temporary Second Lieutenant D. S. Bell Dashes Across The Open, Under Very Heavy fire, To Attack A Machine Gun Party. | During an attack a very heavy enfilade fire was opened on the attacking company by a hostile machine gun. Temporary Second Lieutenant Donald Simpson Bell, late of the Yorkshire Regiment, immediately, and on his own initiative, crept up a communicat...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Naik Shahamad Khan, With Two Others, Holding His Ground After His Machine Gun Had Been Knocked Out By Shellfire. | Naik Shahamad Khan, of the Punjabis, was in charge of a machine gun section in an exposed position, within 150 yards of the enemys trenches. Here he worked his own gun single-handed after all his men, except two belt fillers, had become casualties....... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Major C. A. L. Yate Leading The Nineteen Survivors Of His Company In A Charge At The Battle Of Le Cateau. | During the battle of Le Cateau, on August 26th 1914, Major Charles Allix Lavington Yate, of the 2nd Battalion, The Kings Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry), commanded one of the two companies hat remained to the end in the trenches at Le Cateau, and whe...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal J. Davies And Eight Men Routing With The Bayonet A Party Of Germans Who Had Previously Surrounded Them. | Prior to an attack on the enemy in a wood Corporal Joseph Davies, of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, became separated with eight men from his company. When the enemy delivered their second counter attack his party was completely surrounded, but he got t...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private T. Doswell Rescuing An Officer From A Mine In Which He Lay Unconscious. | When Private T. Doswell, of the 3rd battalion, Liverpool Regiment (attached 1st Battalion), was on duty outside a mine, near Cuinchy, on November 3rd 1915, an officer who was gassed came out of the mine, and said that another officer was lying uncon...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lance-Sergeant F. L. Hastings Bombing Seven Of The Enemy Who Were Attempting To Seize The Lip Of A Mine Crater. | After the enemy had exploded a mine, Lance-Sergeant F. L. Hastings, of the Royal Fusiliers, rushed off with two men, through a heavy barrage of shrapnel, telling the rest of his party to follow as quickly as possible. On reaching the lip of the cr...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Temporary Major S. W. Loudoun-Shand Helping Men Over The Parapet While Exposed To Very Fierce Machine Gun Fire. | When a company attempted to climb over the parapet to attack the enemys trenches they were met by very fierce machine gun fire, which temporarily stopped their progress. Temporary Major Stewart Loudoun-Shand, late of the Yorkshire Regiment, immedia...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private J. S. Kerr Rendering First Aid To The Wounded At A Farm, Which Was Being Heavily Shelled. | During a heavy bombardment by high explosive and gas shells on December 29th 1915, Private J. S. Kerr, of the Royal Army Medical Corps (attached 7th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery), left his dug out, near Ypres, and passed through a dense c...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private J. Little Collecting Important Documents From A house Which Was Being Heavily Shelled. | On the afternoon of November 4th 1914, during the first battle of Ypres, the German artillery got the range of the 1st Corpse Headquarters, and several men were killed or wounded. On receiving orders the survivors left the house, but it was then di...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lieutenant J. V. Holland Leading His Bombers Through A Village Held By The Enemy, After Driving Them From Their Dug Outs. | Not content with bombing hostile dug outs during a heavy engagement, Lieutenant John Vincent Holland, of the Leinster Regiment, fearlessly led his bombers through the British artillery barrage and cleared a greater part of the village in front. He ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | A German Officer And Fourteen Of His Men Cry For Mercy To Lieutenant Leach. | Section by section the trench was recaptured, and driven back until they could go no further, the Germans decided to surrender. Lieutenant Leach (2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment) was surprised to hear a voice calling in English Dont shoot sir! ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal G. Sanders And His Party Driving Off A German Attack And Rescuing Some Prisoners. | After an advance into the enemys lines, Corporal George Sanders, of the West Yorkshire Regiment, found himself isolated with a party of thirty men. But he organized his defences, and detailed a bombing party. Next morning his party drove off an at...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lance-Naik Lala Drags A Wounded Officer, Whom He Found Lying Close To The Enemy, To A Shelter And There Bandages His Wounds. | Finding a British Officer of another regiment lying close to the enemy, Lance-Naik Lala, of the 41st Dogras Indian Army, dragged him into a temporary shelter. After bandaging his wounds he heard calls from the adjutant of his own regiment, who was ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Temporary Lieutenant G. ST. G. S. Cather Bringing In A Wounded Man In Full View Of The Enemy And Under Machine Gun And Artillery Fire. | From early in the evening till midnight Temporary Lieutenant Geoffrey St. George Shillington Cather, of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, searched No mans land and brought in three wounded men. Next morning at 8 a.m. he continued his search, brought in an...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | The Rev E. N. Mellish Walking Across Ground, Which Was Being Swept By Machine Gun Fire, To Tend The Wounded. | During heavy fighting at St. Eloi on March 27th 1916, and the two following days the Rev. Edward Noel Mellish journeyed under continuous and heavy fire, between the original British trenches and those captured, in order to tend and rescue wounded me...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Captain W. B. Allen Assisting Men Wounded By The Explosion Of Ammunition, after being himself wounded. | A German shell having exploded some ammunition which was being unloaded, causing several casualties, Captain William Barnsley Allen, M.C., M.B., of the royal Army Medical Corps, with utter disregard of danger, ran across the open, under heavy shellf...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Second Lieutenant H. C. F. Draders Tank Putting Enemy Infantry To Flight And Silencing A Machine Gun. | Second Lieutenant Harry Cecil Frank Dreader, of the Northumberland Fusiliers, fought his tank with great gallantry, putting enemy infantry to flight and silencing a machine gun. Later, he carried ammunition to the front line under heavy fire. He w...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private R. Ryder Dashes Unsupported At An Enemy Trench And Clears It With A Lewis Gun. | A company was held up by heavy rifle fire, all its officers had become casualties, and for want of leadership the attack feared. Realising the situation, Private Robert Ryder, of the Middlesex Regiment, without a moment's thought for his own sa...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal W. R. Van Blommesten Carries A Wounded Comrade To Safety While Under Fire. | Corporal W. R. Van Blommestein, of the South African Horse, dismounted and carried a wounded comrade to a place of safety under fire, and at great personal risk. For the conspicuous gallantry displayed by him he was awarded the D.C.M. ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private J. Hutchinson Shooting Two German Sentries When Leading An Attack On A German Trench. | During an attack on the enemys position, Private James Hutchinson, of the Lancashire Fusiliers (of Bury), was the leading man, and, entering their trench, shot two sentries and cleared two of the traverses. After the British object had been gained ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Saddler Staff Sergeant Simpson Protecting A Mortally Wounded Officer From The Attacks Of Tribesmen. | Having first dismounted and rescued a comrade, by shooting a tribesman, Saddler Staff Sergeant W. A. Simpson, of the 21st Lancers, then rushed to the assistance of a mortally wounded officer of his regiment, holding back the enemy with his revolver....... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private T. A. Jones Attacks And Disarms Singlehanded 102 Of The Enemy And Then Marches Them To The British Lines. | Private Thomas Alfred Jones, of the Cheshire Regiment, was with his company consolidating the defences, and, noticing an enemy sniper at 200 yards distance, he went out, and returned the snipers fire and killed him. He then saw two more of the enem...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Temporary Second Lieutenant T. E. Adlam, Though Wounded Leads His Men In A Dashing Attack, Capturing A German Position And Killing The Defenders. | A portion of a village had to be captured, and under heavy fire Temporary Second Lieutenant Tom Edwin Adlam, of the Bedfordshire Regiment, rushed from shell hole collecting men and also enemy grenades for a sudden rush. At this stage he was wounded...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal F. W. Accelton Steadies The Horses To His Gun Carriage, And Brings The Gun Into Action. | When a heavy shell blew from the saddle and wounded his horse, Corporal F. W. Accleton, of the Royal Field Artillery, held on to his horse, assisted the team, and brought the gun into action. For his conspicuous gallantry he was awarded the D.C.M. ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal Redpath Shooting German Snipers At Point Blank Range During The First Battle Of Ypres. | When on November 11th 1914, during the first battle of Ypres, the Prussian Guard carried the first line trenches of the British at three points, the Battalion Headquarters Staff of the British suddenly found themselves between their retreating comra...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Second Lieutenant (Temporary Captain) E. M. Allfrey Directing The Supply Of Ammunition, Rations And Water To Troops In Action During A Gas Attack. | Second Lieutenant (Temporary Captain) Edward Mowbray Allfrey, of the Kings Rifle Corps, Special Reserve, organized and carried out in a most efficient manner the supply of ammunition, rations and water to the troops engaged. The enemy and the neces...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant Lowe Conducting Observations From A Cottage Between The Opposing Lines Under Heavy Fire. | When volunteers were called for to blow up a small cottage between the opposing lines near Givenchy one day in November 1915, Sergeant Norman McGregor Lowe, of the London Scottish, crawled out with two comrades to undertake the dangerous task. On a...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Captain (Temporary Lieutenant- Colonel) R. B. Barker Organizing The Defences Of A Wood. | During operations Captain (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Randle Barnett Barker, of the Royal Fusiliers, took over and organised the defences of a wood great skill, after making a personal reconnaissance of the whole wood under shell and machine gun ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Germans Advancing Against Captain Railston And His Men, Across Ground Covered By Standing Corps. | Under the splendid lead of Captain Railston (1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade) every man did his utmost, either in keeping up rapid rifle fire, or bandaging wounded comrades, or else collecting ammunition from the bandoliers of the dead and wounded. Bu...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Second Lieutenant G. G. Coury Assisting Men Digging A Communication Trench Under Intense Fire. | During an advance Second Lieutenant Gabriel George Coury, of the South Lancashire Regiment, was in command of two platoons, which had been ordered to dig a communication trench, and his fine example kept up the spirits of his men, who completed the ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sapper W. Hackett Refuses To Leave A Comrade Who Was Lying Seriously Injured In A Mine Gallery. | Sapper William Hackett, of the Royal Engineers, was entombed with four others in a gallery owing to the explosion of an enemy mine. After working for twenty hours a hole was made through fallen earth and broken timber, and the outside party was met...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Major W. LA T. Congreve, Conducting A Battalion To Its Position Of Deployment. | During preparations for the attack Major Williams La Touche Congreve, D.S.O., M.C., of the Rifle Brigade, carried out, under fire, reconnaissances of the enemy lines. By night he conducted a battalion to its position of deployment, afterwards retur...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private T. Hughes Dashes Out In Front Of His Company, Shoots A Machine Gunner, And, Single-handed Captures The Gun. | Private Thomas Hughes, of the Connaught Rangers, was wounded in an attack, but returned at once to the firing line after having his wounds dressed. Later, seeing a hostile machine gun, he dashed out in front of his company shot the gunner and singl...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal F. C. Powell Threading His Way, Under Shellfire, Amidst Huge Craters With An Urgent Message For His Commanding Officer. | At Festubert, on May 25th 1915, Corporal Francis Cyril Powell, of Lord Strathconas Horse, was in charge of a telephone station 600 yards behind the support trench. The enemy was heavily shelling the intervening ground, and telephone wires between...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Acting Sergeant J. Erskine Bandaging His Wounded Officer While Being Repeatedly Fired At. | Whilst the near lip of a crater, caused by the explosion of a large enemy mine, was being consolidated, Acting-Sergeant John Erskine, of the Scottish Rifles (T. F.) rushed out under continuous fire with utter disregard of danger, and rescued a wound...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal A. Lain Rescues A Wagon Team. | Later, Corporal Lain (Royal Artillery) unhooked the team from a burning ammunition wagon and got the horses safely away. For his conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty he was awarded the D.C.M. ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant R. Downie Attacks And Kills A Gun Team, And Captures The Gun. | Sergeant Robert Downie accounted for several of the enemy, and in addition captured a machine gun, killing the team. It was owing to his courage and initiative that this important position, which had resisted four or five previous attacks, was won....... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Temporary Captain W. Campbell Attempting To Rescue Men From A Dug Out Hit By A Gas Shell. | During operations, Temporary Captain William Campbell, M.B., of the Royal Medical Corps, repeatedly attended the wounded under heavy shellfire. On one occasion, when a gas shell had hit a dug out, he went in to attempt the rescue of those within un...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private (Acting-Corporal) L. Clarke, Single-handed, Holding At Bay A Party Of Germans During A Counter Attack. | Private (Acting-Corporal) Leo Clarke, Canadian Infantry, was building a block when about twenty of the enemy with two officers counter-attacked. He boldly advanced against them, emptied his revolver into them and afterwards two enemy rifles, which ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | A Shell burst close To Private Jackson, Blowing Off His Arm When Assisting To Bring In A Wounded Man. | Following a successful raid, several raiders were seriously wounded by shellfire. Private William Jackson, of the Australian Infantry, got safely back, and after handing over a prisoner, went out again, under heavy shellfire, and assisted in bringi...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Lieutenant (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) R. B. Bradford, M.C., Rallies The Men Of Another Battalion And Leads Them Forward With His Own Battalion. | A leading battalion having suffered severe casualties, and the commander wounded, its flank became dangerously exposed. Raked by machine gun fire, the situation was critical. At the request of the wounded commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Bradford, M....... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Captain E. N. E. M. Vaughan And His Men drive Back The Enemy From An Isolated Trench. | When in command of an isolated trench and attacked on front, flank and rear, Captain Eugene Napoleon Ernest Mallet Vaughan (Reserve of Officers) Grenadier Guards, drove off the enemy, killing over 100 of them, and took twenty prisoners. His fine ex...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Temporary Captain A. C. T. White Leading A Counter-Attack And Driving The Enemy From A Redoubt. | Temporary Captain Archie Cecil Thomas White, of the Yorkshire Regiment, was in command of troops holding the southern and western faces of a redoubt. For four days and nights, by his indomitable spirit, great personal courage, and skilful dispositi...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant D. Jones Directing The Survivors Of A Platoon After The Officer Had Been Killed. | The platoon to which Sergeant D. Jones of the Liverpool Regiment, belonged was ordered to a forward position, and during the advance came under heavy machine gunfire, the officer being killed and the platoon suffering heavy losses. Sergeant Jones l...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Second Lieutenant A. V. Smith Throws Himself On A Live Bomb, Sacrificing His Life For His Comrades. | Second Lieutenant Alfred Victor Smith, of the 1/5th Battalion, the East Lancashire Regiment (T.F.) was throwing a grenade, when it slipped from his hand and fell to the bottom of the trench, close to several British officers and men. He shouted, an...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private F. G. Turrall Guarding A Wounded Officer And Holding His Ground Amid Machine Gun Fire And Bombs. | During a bombing attack the officer in charge was badly wounded, ad the party, having penetrated the enemy position, was compelled to retire. Eventually Private Turrall remained with the officer for three hours, under continuous and very heavy fire...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private W. Young Assisting To Bring In A Wounded Non-Commissioned Officer, After He Himself Had Both Jaws Shattered. | On seeing that his Sergeant had been wounded, Private William Young, of the East Lancashire Regiment, left his trench to attend to him under very heavy fire. The wounded non-commissioned officer requested Private Young to get under cover, but he re...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Captain E. Percival And A Party Of Stretcher-Bearers Searching For Wounded In a Wood, Which Was Under Fire. | Captain Edgar Percival, M.B., of the Royal Army Medical Corp, led a party of stretcher-bearers into a wood, and remained for over two hours searching for wounded under shell and machine gun fire. On previous occasions he has done similar gallant wo...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant W. H. Barclays Perilous Journey To His Trench With A Severely Wounded Man On His Back. | On the morning of October 19th 1914, Sergeant W. H. Barclay, of the East Yorkshire Regiment, crawled out from his trench, near Armentieres, to tap a German listening wire. He took with him Privates Thrussell, Donkin and Donnelly, and when the enemy...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private J. Miller Staggers Back, Mortally Wounded, With The Answer To A Message And Falls At The Feet Of An Officer On Delivering It. | Private James Miller, of the Royal Lancaster Regiment, was ordered to take an important message under heavy fire and to bring back a reply. On leaving the trench he was shot almost immediately, the bullet coming out through his abdomen. But he com...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal C. T. Jones And Two Men Driving The Enemy Of Their Trench By The Fire Of A Mortar. | On December 20th 1914, the enemy entered the trench in which Corporal C. T. Jones, of the 28th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, was posted but he succeeded in driving them out by a well-directed fire from a trench mortar. Only two men assisted Corpo...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Corporal J. D. Pollock Bombing The Enemys Bombers From The Top Of A Trench. | On September 27th 1915, when the enemys bombers, in superior numbers, were successfully working up the Little Willie trench towards Hohenzollern redoubt, Corporal James Dalgleish Pollock, of the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders, got out of the trench,...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Captain A. C. De Wiart Advancing To The Attack Through An Intense Fire Barrage. | Owing largely to the dauntless courage and inspiring example of Captain (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Adrian Carton De Wiart, D.S.O., of the Grenadier Guards, a serious reverse was averted during severe and prolonged operations. He displayed the u...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Captain A. F. G. Kilby Cheering His Men On To The Attack After Being Seriously Wounded. | Though wounded at the outset of the attack, Captain Arthur Forbes Gordon Kilby, of the 2nd Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment, continued to lead his men along a narrow two path right up to the enemy wire, under a devastating machine gun fir...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private W. Buckingham Rescuing The Wounded Under Heavy Fire. | For conspicuous acts of bravery and devotion to duty in rescuing and rendering aid to the wounded whilst exposed to heavy fire, Private William Buckingham, of the 2nd Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment was awarded the V.C. ...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Private J. E. Healey Narrowly Escapes With His Life While Acting As A Messenger. | At Richebourg on October 28th 1914, Private James Edward Healey, of the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, was sent with an urgent message for reinforcements. His way lay along an open road, and he had gone about 100 yards when there was a blindi...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Captain (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) B. C. Freyberg, D.S.O., Leading The Assault On A Fortified Village. | After having been twice wounded, Captain Bernard Cyril Freyberg, D.S.O., of the Royal West Surrey Regiment and Royal Naval Division, organised the attack on a strongly fortified village, and leading the assault, captured the village and five hundred...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Sergeant A. F. Saunders Directing The Fire Of Two Machine Guns though Severely Wounded In The Thigh. | When his officer had been wounded in the attack Sergeant Arthur Frederick Saunders, of the 9th (Service) Battalion, the Suffolk Regiment, took charge of two machine guns and a few men, and although severely wounded in the thigh, closely followed the...... | 1 print edition available from £13.00
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 | Mons Canal Railway Bridge, 23rd August 1914 by David Rowlands. | Lieutenant Maurice Dease and Fusilier Frank Godley, 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, in the action that won them the first two Victoria Crosses to be awarded in the Great War. ...... | 1 print edition available from £16.00
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 | Gallipoli Anzac Beach by Charles Dixon. | The Landing at Anzac, April 25th 1915. ...... | 1 print edition available from £14.00
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| Here They Come by William Barnes Wollen. | Coldstream Guards, France 1914. ...... | 1 print edition available from £14.00
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 | Great War Medals | British War Medal 1914-1920, Allied victory Medal 1914-1918, 1914 Star and 1914-1915 Star, Mercantile Marine war Medal 1914-1918, Territorial Force War Medal 1914-1919. ...... | 1 print edition available from £24.00
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