Picture No | 10215310 |
Date | September 4th 1915 |
Description | An airman who won the V.C |
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Captain John Aidan Liddell of 3rd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Royal Flying Corps who won the Victoria Cross after safely flying and landing his reconnaissance plane despite suffering severe wounds half an hour earlier. His broken leg was subsequently amputated.
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Source | The Illustrated London News. September 4th 1915. P.306. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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