Picture No | 10037305 |
Date | 1916 |
Description | Royal Medical Corps, near Combles 1916 |
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Eyewitness account of the noble work of the Royal Medical Corps, succouring a disabled crew near Combles. 'A battery of our Field Howitzers, which was pushed up to cover our offensive near Combles, came under a heavy and accurate fire, and one of the guns was disabled by H. E shell, which burst just in front of it, the fragments blowing off half the shield, smashing the near wheel and damaging the buffer, besides killing or wounding the whole detachment'.
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Source | Illustration by Frank Dadd in 'The Graphic', 9 November 1916, pages 742 & 743 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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