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Battle of Fleurbaix
Cranston Military Prints  By Subject Military Art World War One  Battle of Fleurbaix |
| Battle of Fleurbaix. First World War military prints and paintings depicting the Battle of Fleurbaix. |
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Sergeant Tuersley running to assist a wounded Corporal half of whose leg had been blown off by a shell. On working his way out of the debris of a parapet at Fleurbaix in which he had been buried on the afternoon of November 9th 1914, Sergeant Charles Leonard Tuersley, of the 1st Royal Fusiliers, heard a man calling from a trench near by. On running round he found that a section commander, Corporal Tanner, had had half of his leg blown off. Sergeant Tuersley at once applied an improvised tourniquet, but while he was bending over the wounded man a shell burst near by. Two pieces struck the Sergeant in the back, but though bleeding freely he continued to attend to his comrade. He refused to retire for treatment until the wounded Corporal had been removed. For his conspicuous gallantry Sergeant Tuersley was awarded the D.C.M. |
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