2-710-873 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'A Heroic Deed of the Royal Horse Artillery Near Compiègne', (1919). Scene from the First World War: at the Battle of Nery in September 1914, the British 1st Cavalry Brigade and 'L Battery', Royal Horse Artillery, fought off the Germans until relieved by British infantry reinforcements. The battery was all but destroyed apart from one gun which was kept in action by Captain Edward Bradbury, Sergeant David Nelson and Battery Sergeant-Major George Dorrell. All three were awarded the Victoria Cross for their brave stand, Bradbury's VC being posthumous. From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. II, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]