Fields of Battle - Aisne
Near Vivieres. Memorial to Lieutenant Gaston de Gironde, commanding the 2nd Squadron 16th Dragoons, who on Sept 10th 1914 was killed in a night charge against a squadron of German aircraft parked in the fields here. The French destroyed 8 aircraft but Gironde was hit by a machine gun and died of his wounds
Picture No
10693818
Media ID
47562714
Size
5000px x 3333px
(2.0MB)
Credit
westernfrontphotography.com / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Mike St Maur Sheil
Date
2007
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