pferguson | November 1, 2022
Mons-Condé Canal, Belgium: Action of 23 August 1914 REQUIESCAT IN PACE Though two or three times badly wounded he continued to control the fire of his machine guns at Mons on 23rd Aug., until all his men were shot. He died of his wounds. It may have been a brief visit to the railway bridge […]
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Tags: 23 August 1914, Maurice James Dease VC, Mons-Condé Canal, Nimy Railway Bridge, Posthumous Victoria Cross, Royal Fusiliers, Sidney Godley VC, St. Symphorien Military Cemetery
pferguson | August 23, 2014
Snapshot of the Great War 23 August 1914 Once again looking back upon our day in the vicinity of Mons my friends and I took in the site where the first two Victoria Crosses of the Great War were earned. It was at Nimy Railway Bridge that Private Sidney Frank Godley and Lieutenant Maurice Dease […]
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Tags: 23 August 1914, Machine Gun, Maurice Dease, Nimy Railway Bridge, Royal Fusiliers, Sidney Frank Godley, Victoria Cross