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Trumpeter Waldon Bringing a Horse to the Firing Stations at Le Cateau Under Fire. - Cranston Military Prints

Trumpeter Waldon Bringing a Horse to the Firing Stations at Le Cateau Under Fire.


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 quartermaster-sergeant in charge of the wagon-teams and gun-limbers, two thousand yards behind the firing stations. Waldron courageously waited with a spare horse though shrapnel and high explosive shells were bursting all round him. Seeing the danger of his position, the officer at length ordered him to the rear. Though wounded, Waldron returned later in the day leading a horse, which was required at the front. His conspicuous coolness and courage were rewarded with the D.C.M.
Item Code : DTE0238Trumpeter Waldon Bringing a Horse to the Firing Stations at Le Cateau Under Fire. - Editions Available
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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 being opposed to the small British force of 1,000. The British undertook a retirement, but it was not carried out without heavy fighting. When the sub section of artillery, to which Sergeant G Ayres, of the 82nd Battery, royal Field Artillery, belonged was suffering casualties in men and horses he succeeded in extricating them under very difficult circumstances on several occasions. He was awarded the D.C.M. for conspicuous ability and gallantry.
Sergeant Ayres extricating a sub section of field artillery from a position in which it was suffering severe losses.		 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 Corporal Jones, who was awarded the D.C.M. for his conspicuous gallantry,, and the enemy were throwing bombs.
Corporal C. T. Jones And Two Men Driving The Enemy Of Their Trench By The Fire Of A Mortar.		 Swamped by mud amidst a desolate, shattered landscape, men and horses of the Royal Field Artillery drag their 18 pounder field-gun towards a new position on 15 November 1917, during the final days of the Battle of Passchendaele. Whilst the army continues its grim fight on the ground, overhead Sopwith Camels from 45 Squadron Royal Flying Corps tangle in an equally deadly duel with German Albatros fighters of Jasta 6. Flying the lead Sopwith Camel is the RFC Ace, 2nd Lt Kenneth Montgomery who scored the last of his 12 victories in this dogfight when he shot down the German Ace Leutnant Hans Ritter von Adam, the Commanding Officer of Jasta 6 with an impressive 21 victories to his name. To commemorate one of the most significant anniversaries in history, Anthony Saunders has created a powerful painting portraying the bleak sacrifice made by so many heroic young men. The names of the bitter battles they endured, however, still live on a hundred years later - Ypres, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Arras, Loos - and one of the most savage - Passchendaele.
The Big Push - Passchendaele 1917 by Anthony Saunders. 		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, however, set fire to the building, and Private Albert Edward Walker gallantly volunteered to move the wounded and fetch them water. For two hours he continued to perform this heroic work while the enemy kept up a fierce bombardment, frequently hitting the church. Private, subsequently Lance Corporal, Walker was awarded the D.C.M. for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He was, unhappily, killed in the summer of 1915.
Private A. E. Walker Assisting A Wounded Comrade From A Burning Church, Which Was Being Used As A Hospital.

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