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WWI PHOTO: LIEUT. B GEARY V.C, EAST SURREY REGIMENT, WOUNDED

WWI PHOTO: LIEUT. B GEARY V.C, EAST SURREY REGIMENT, WOUNDED

An official WWI photograph from the archive of the First Surrey Rifles captioned: 'British attack towards Bapaume, one of the first early morning casualities. A double V.C. of the East Surreys being brought in on the shoulders of captured Germans'. The photograph was taken by T.K. Aitken of an injured Lieut. Benjamin Hadley Geary V.C. (a single VC winner), from the 1st Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment, at Achiet-le-Petit, on the Western Front, 21st August 1918.
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Collection:1st Surrey Rifles
Image type:Photograph
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Ref:12097
Identifier:IV 36/11/6/9408
Date:1918

#1901 - 1925  #1st Surrey Rifles  #Photograph  #WAR AND ARMED FORCES