Picture No | 10697524 |
Date | 1916 |
Description | Georges Boillot |
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Georges Boillot (1883 - 1916), French Grand Prix motor racing driver and First World War pilot. Photographed in The Sporting & Dramatic News after reports that he had been reported missing since taking part in . an air battle. During his time as a flyer, he won the Croix de Guerre and the Legion d'Honneur On April 21, 1916 his plane was shot down in a dogfight over Verdun-sur-Meuse and crashed near Bar-le-Duc. Severely injured, he died in a military hospital at Vadelaincourt, Meuse.
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Source | Photograph in the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, 27 May 1916, page 341 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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