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Private Holmes driving a motor ambulance in the reverse for four hundred yards while under fire. - Cranston Military Prints

Private Holmes driving a motor ambulance in the reverse for four hundred yards while under fire.


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 hundred yards, the man beside him having been killed, till a bullet struck the carburettor. He then came up with another car, and safely towed his own away. His car was hit twenty-two times, and but for his great bravery and resource, must have been wrecked. Holmes was awarded the D.C.M. for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.
Item Code : DTE0532Private Holmes driving a motor ambulance in the reverse for four hundred yards while under fire. - Editions Available
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First World War antique black and white book plate published c.1916-18 of glorious acts of heroism during the Great War. This plate may also have text on the reverse side which does not affect the framed side. Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm)none£6 Off!
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Army Service Corps by Richard Caton Woodville. 		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 men and many horses.
Provisional Farrier Sergeant Cussens extricating horses from stables in which a shell had burst.		 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.
Driver Burberry driving wagons through a town under heavy shellfire.		 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 his own car, and then towed the other back to the dressing station. For his conspicuous gallantry he was awarded the D.C.M.
Driver Caley towing back, under fire a car, which had broken down.

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