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Gunner Pond And Three Comrades Rescuing Horses From A Lane Swept By Shell-Fire. - Cranston Military Prints

Gunner Pond And Three Comrades Rescuing Horses From A Lane Swept By Shell-Fire.


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 swept the lane, and about forty horses, which were there, were in a terrible plight. Several of the men in charge of them had been killed. And the survivors were making desperate efforts to get the terrified animals away. On seeing their predicament, Gunner George Leonard Pond, of the 115th Battery Royal Field Artillery, and three others, bravely ran to the assistance of their comrades. Directed by an officer, who had gallantly remained on duty, though badly wounded they managed to get the horses under cover. The gallant conduct of Gunner-now Corporal-Pond all through the action was deservedly rewarded with the D.C.M.
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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. 		UN455P. Royal Field Artillery by Richard Caton Woodville.
Royal Field Artillery by Richard Caton Woodville. 		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 dressed. As soon as they were ready, he brought them, seated on the horses, to safety. For his gallant conduct he was rewarded with the D.C.M.
Driver Brown Returning With wounded on horseback From The Firing Line.

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