File:Canadians of the first platoon to enter Valenciennes from the west (4688601810).jpg
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English: Canadian troops storming fortifications at Valenciennes, France, during World War I. Canadian soldiers running through a debris-strewn wasteland towards the walls of Valenciennes. In the foreground, the leading soldier scrambles over barbed wire barricades. Even from the photograph the manoeuvre looks perilous, and it is difficult to imagine how nerve-racking it must have been attempting it while under heavy machine-gun fire. In the Canadian assault on Valenciennes on November 1st 1918, a young sergeant, Hugh Cairns single-handedly captured a German machine gun and killed its crew of five, before leading the capture of eighteen more German soldiers. He was killed the following day and posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. |
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Camera location | 50° 21′ 30.56″ N, 3° 31′ 26.76″ E | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 50.358489; 3.524100 |
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current | 16:48, 7 January 2022 | 939 × 717 (145 KB) | Ich (talk | contribs) | Cropped 6 % horizontally, 7 % vertically using CropTool with lossless mode. | |
16:48, 7 January 2022 | 1,000 × 770 (154 KB) | Ich (talk | contribs) | Larger version from https://deriv.nls.uk/dcn30/7440/74407840.30.jpg | ||
15:02, 16 November 2016 | 600 × 462 (65 KB) | Fæ (talk | contribs) | National Library of Scotland, Set 72157624150609895, ID 4688601810, Original title Canadians of the first platoon to enter Valenciennes from the west |
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