2-752-188 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Duke of Westminster', c1916, (c1920). '...awarded the D.S.O. [Distinguished Service Order] for his Services with the Armoured Cars in the Senussi Campaign'. Portrait of British officer Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (1879-1953) who led armoured cars and ambulances on a 120-mile (190 km) dash across the Libyan desert to rescue British sailors being held prisoner during the First World War. From "The Great World War: A History", Volume V, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]