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World War One Military Art Print List
Cranston Military Prints  By Subject Military Art World War One  World War One Print List |
| Our complete list of military art of the First World War. Military prints, paintings and drawings of First World War military battles, tanks and soldiers, including Ypres, the Somme, Passchendaele and Cambrai. |
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Company-Sergeant-Major Seaman Holding Back The Germans Single Handed. When the railway was reached, it was discovered that further progress was blocked by a culvert which the Germans had barricaded in such a way that only one man could pass through the opening at a time. It was also discovered that the Germans had no intention of waiting to be attacked, but were attempting to outflank and cut off the party. It was essential that they should not use the opening in the culvert, and for an hour and a half Seaman (2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards) stationed himself by the arch, shooting down those who tried to pass through the gap. He was wounded by a bomb, fortunately not seriously enough to incapacitate him. The other party largely owing to seamans display of courage and determination eventually recaptured the lost trench. He received the D.C.M., as also did Privates D. White, F. Richardson and S. B. Leslie for their gallant conduct in bombing the enemys position. |
How Lance-Corporal Michael OLeary Won The V.C. At Cuinchy. On February 1st 1915, in the brisk action at Cuinchy, the Germans captured a trench held by the Irish and Coldstream Guards. A tremendous storm of gun and rifle fire was poured upon the trench with a view to its recapture. During the action, Lance-Corporal O'Leary spotted a German machine gun which would play havoc with our men when they advanced. Orders were given for the Irish to go forward, but OLeary meanwhile had not forgotten the machine gun. He put on his best pace, and within a few seconds found himself in a corner of the German trench on the way to his goal. Immediately ahead of him was a barricade, but its five defenders quickly paid with their live the penalty of standing between an Irishman and his hearts desire. |
Private T. Bull Hurling Bombs At The Enemy From The Parapet Of Their Trench. At 5 a.m. on May 9th 1915, the British artillery began to bombard the German lines at Rouges Bancs. Half an hour later the attack was begun. The British went forward with great dash, capturing the enemys first line trenches and a few points beyond. But the German line was very strong, and from numerous fortified positions the enemy directed a withering fire against the British. With an officer and four men, Private T. Bull, of the Northamptonshire Regiment, succeeded in reaching the parapet of the enemys trench at a particular point in their lines, and all except Bull lay down. He was the only bomb thrower of the party, and the only man to survive. For his conspicuous gallantry and determination he was awarded the D.C.M. |
British Wounded Being Put On board A Supply Train Under Orders Of Sergeant J. Cooke. The most critical day in the retreat from the Marne was August 26th 1914. The dogged resistance of the British under General Smith-Dorrien at Le Cateau broke the force of the German pursuit, but as the enemy came steadily onwards, Northern France was seized with chaos. At Boue, Sergeant of the Sanitary Squad, Royal Army Medical corps, had to take forcible possession of and remove a supply train, which was filled with wounded to Etreux. Here the driver escaped with his engine, leaving to Cooke the business of commandeering another. For the conspicuous gallantry resource and initiative which he showed at a most trying time, he was rewarded with the D.C.M. |
Sepoys Bal Bahadur Chetti And Dal Bahadur Thapa Journeying In A Dug-Out With A Message To Jasin Post. Jasin Post, twenty miles within German East African territory was occupied in December 1914. A German attack on January 12th 1915 was beaten off, but six days later the enemy returned in great strength. On the night of January 18th Bal Bahadur Chetti and Dal Bahadur Thaps, of the 2nd Kashmir Rifles, volunteered to carry a message to the British Force. It was a most dangerous errand, nevertheless the two Indians set out in a dug out through the mangrove swamps. As they reached the enemys outposts which formed a close ring all round Jasin Post, they were fired upon, an found it impossible to get through. They remained out, however, all night and came back with most useful information. Their cool and courageous conduct was rewarded with the Indian Order of Merit. |
Major Ing Checking A Retirement At A Critical Moment. On May 13th 1915, during the second Battle of Ypres, the British line gave way before the tremendous bombardment of the enemy, and as the huge high explosive shells burst on the parapets, completely shattering the trenches, survivors of the ordeal hastily retired. Seeing men falling back, Major George Harold Absell Ing, of the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays), came back from his trench in the front line and standing with resolute courage on a road exposed to an appalling shellfire, ordered about forty bewildered men in the act of retiring, to join his section of the defence. His gallant action had far reaching results, and he was deservedly awarded the D.S.O. |
Sergeant Taylor Clearing Fallen Horses From a Pontoon Bridge at Valley. The passage of the Aisne was begun on Sunday, September 13th 1914, when the 8th British Brigade made the crossing at Vailly. On the following day the enemy made a counter attack at this point, and for a time the communications of the 3rd Division appeared to be in danger of being cut. No reserves were available except cavalry, but this proved sufficient in repelling the attack after hard fighting. As the 5th Cavalry Brigade was retiring across the river at Vailly, shells burn in quick succession over the pontoon bridge, and falling horses began to cause confusion. Sergeant Taylor, of the 57th Company Royal Engineers, however, rushed forward and did most gallant and effective work in clearing them away. He was awarded the D.C.M. |
The Death Of Lance Naik Bhau Savant At Mazera. In the military operations on the Tigris the British force advanced against Mazera, which was in the occupation of the Turks on December 7th 1914, and the enemy were driven across the river to Kurna. Lance Naik Bhau Savant, of the 110th Mahratta Light Infantry, was in command of the scouts, and in advancing under heavy fire he showed the garrison courage. He was always in the front, and when leading his men in the final bayonet charge at Mazera was most unfortunately shot through the heart. |
Second Lieutenant Robinson Conveying A Field Gun Across The YSER Canal Under Fire. During the operations south of Pilkem, between the 6th and 8th of July 1915, the British trenches were within sixty yards of a German sap, which had to be destroyed, with about thirty yards of thick wire entanglements, to clear the way for an infantry attack. With great coolness and enterprise. Second-Lieutenant Parr Aldous Robinson, of the 135th Battery Royal Field Artillery, conveyed under fire from the enemys guns an eighteen-pounder field gun across the Yser Canal on a raft. On being landed, it was removed to the British fire trenches, and in destroying the sap and entanglements, the gun was of great use in the way for a successful infantry attack. The conspicuous services of Second-Lieutenant Robinson were rewarded with the D.S.O. |
Sergeant Packard Checking The Enemys Attack With A Machine Gun At Richebourg LAvoue. On advancing to attack the British trenches at Richebourg LAvoue, the Germans threw themselves flat on the ground when about eighty yards distant. With the help of a private, Sergeant Packard (East Surreys) took a machine gun over the parapet of his trench and along a ditch running at right angles to and between the opposing lines. When almost opposite the prostrate Germans, he mounted the machine gun and began firing. Before long some of the enemy appeared in the ditch, and as they crept close up to him. Packard turned the machine gun on them and they were soon wiped out. Swinging round he face the men lying in the open, and the moment they rose to attack, he directed a deadly fire on them. The Germans fell back in disorder, leaving the ground heaped with their dead and wounded. The conspicuous gallantry of Sergeant Packard was rewarded with the D.C.M. |
Captain Butler and Thirteen Native Soldiers Attacking One Hundred of the Enemy in the Bush of the Cameroons. No text for this item |
Surgeon Vroj-Lal Umed Ram Pandit Seizing a Treacherous Arab who had Shot a Wounded Sepoy. No text for this item |
Lance-Dufadar Arjan Singh Placing the Body of a Dead Comrade on his Saddle with the Help of Two Other Lancers While Under Fire. No text for this item |
Captain Jotham is Shot Dead in Attempting to Rescue one of his Men. No text for this item |
Lieutenant-Commader Cookson Cutting the Hawsers of Dhows Placed Across the Tigris as an Obstruction. No text for this item |
Lieutenant Withington Bringing a Field Gun into Action in the British Trenches Against the Enemys Sap. No text for this item |
Lieutenant Morland Making Prisoners of Eighteen Germans in a Mine at Givenchy. In the last days of the Battle of Festubert, on May 24th and 25th 1915, the 47th Division (2nd London Territorial) succeeded in capturing some of the enemys trenches. At Givenchy on the latter day, Lieutenant Denys Max Thomson Morland, of the 3rd London Field Company Royal Engineers Territorial Force, accompanied a London battalion in an assault on the German trenches. On finding his way into a mine, he explored it alone, and made prisoners of eighteen Germans who were hiding in it. He displayed great energy and bravery throughout the night and was rewarded with the M.C. |
The Gallant Exploits of Naik Sher Singh, In the Course of Which he is Wounded. On February 14th 1915, while fighting with a force sent to quell a local rising of the Dervishes at Shimberberris, Somaliland, Naik Sher Singh, of the 23rd Sikh Pioneers, courageously volunteered to place a charge of gun cotton against the door of the Dervish stronghold. But as he came close to the building he was fired upon through loopholes in the door, and fell insensible. |
A Company of the 9th Argylls Advancing Under Heavy Fire to Reinforce the 2nd Camerons During the Second Battle of Ypres. Between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. on May 10th 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres, the regiment of the 9th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Territorial Force) was ordered to reinforce the 2nd Camerons with two companies. Major George James Christie thereupon led A and D Companies through a terrific shellfire to a position two hundred yards west of Hooge. But at 9.30 he was ordered to reinforce the trench south of the Menin Road, which was reported to be breaking. A Company was chosen, and led with dauntless courage by Major Christie; they went forward in short rushes with shouts of Good old 9thArgylls. The advance lay over a bare slope without any cover from the terrible fire, but though men fell fast these brave Scotsmen never wavered. |
Corporal Potter and his Patrol Defeating the Attempt of a Squadron of German Cavalry to Surround Them.. One day in November 1914, when the British were fighting their way to La Bassee, Corporal F. Potter, of the 15th Hussars, was sent ahead in charge of a patrol of four men. His instructions were to reconnoitre at Bour De Vile and the village beyond, and to obtain information as to the strength of the enemy. On entering Bour De Ville Corporal Potter and his patrol caught sight of the enemy, a squadron of whose cavalry was only separated from them by a house. The patrol at once took cover behind the building, and the German cavalry, who had seen them, moved across to the other side of it in an attempt to surround Potter and his men. |
Corporal Potter and his Men Holding at Bay an Overwhelming Force of German Cavalry. On finding that he was faced by about two hundred of the enemy, Corporal Potter resolved to try and bluff them. He therefore sent the patrols horses back at a gallop, and by this ruse the enemy were deceived for a time into thinking that the men had been killed or else had escaped. Potter and his men then cautiously began their retreat, and though heavily fired upon, they skilfully avoided being hit. All the time the patrol replied to the enemys fire, and the officer in command of the German cavalry was shot dead as he left the cover of the house. Potter brought back valuable information, and his cool and able conducts was rewarded with the D.C.M. |
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