Wednesday, 18th September 1918 - Canada's Hundred Days - 42

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5th Canadian Divisional Artillery

14th Brigade Canadian Divisional Artillery

61st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery

Lieutenant Abner Gladstone Virtue - 61st Fld Bty

Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney

Citation: For most conspicuous bravery during the operations against the Drocourt-Queant line on Sept. 1st and 2nd, 1918. On Sept. 1st, when his battalion was in the vicinity of Vis-en-Artois, preparatory to the advance, the enemy laid down a heavy barrage and counter-attacked. Pte. Nunney, who was at this time at company headquarters, immediately on his own initiative proceeded through the barrage to the company outpost lines, going from post to post and encouraging the men by his own fearless example. The enemy were repulsed and a critical situation was saved. During the attack on Sept. 2nd, his dash continually placed him in advance of his companions, and his fearless example undoubtedly helped greatly to carry the company forward to its objectives.
Private Nunney finally succumbed to his wounds on September 18, 1918.

© IWM (Q 9318)
A two-horse limber crossing a temporary bridge just completed by the Royal Engineers in place of one which had been destroyed by the German, over the Somme at Monchy-Lagache, 18th September 1918.

© IWM (Q 9319)
A lorry of the 32nd Division crossing a temporary bridge just completed by the Royal Engineers in place of one which had been destroyed by the Germans, over the Somme at Monchy-Lagache, 18th September 1918.

© IWM (Q 11326)
Battle of Epehy. Three soldiers resting on ground near Epehy captured by the 12th Division that day, 18th September 1918.

© IWM (Q 11327)
Battle of Epehy. Soldiers of the Lincolnshire Regiment holding a captured reserve trench beyond Epehy, 18th September 1918.

© IWM (Q 11328)
Battle of Epehy. British and German wounded at an Advanced Field Dressing Station near Epehy, 21st Division, 18th September 1918.

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Battle of Epehy. Wounded and Prisoners coming in, near Epehy, 18th September 1918. The wounded soldier in the foreground is from a Bantam unit.

© IWM (Q 11330)
Battle of Epehy. An Royal Army Medical Corps (R.A.M.C.) stretcher bearer giving a light to a wounded German soldier, 64th Field Ambulance, 21st Division, near Epehy, 18th September 1918. See also Q 11323.

© IWM (Q 11331)
Battle of Epehy. A captured German doctor bandaging a wounded soldier of the West Yorkshire Regiment at an Advanced Field Dressing Station, 65th Field Ambulance, 21st Division, near Epehy, 18th September 1918.

© IWM (Q 11332)
Battle of Epehy. A Dressing Station with British and German wounded in foreground (Note ambulance and Chaplain kneeling by a stretcher case) and 6-inch howitzer battery in action in the open in the background, 65th Field Ambulance, 21st Division, near Epehy, 18th September 1918.

© IWM (Q 11333)
Battle of Epehy. British and German wounded soldiers at an Advanced Field Dressing Station, 21st Division, near Epehy, 18th September 1918.

© IWM (Q 11336)
An incident at an advanced field dressing station during the recent allied push. A British padre saying a prayer over a dying German, near Epehy, 18th September 1918.

© IWM (Q 11538)
Battle of Epehy. British wounded and German prisoner sharing a cigarette at an advanced dressing station near Epehy, 18 September 1918. Note captured German Maxim 08/15 (Spandau) light machine guns in the background.

© IWM (E(AUS) 3248)
Men of the 45th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force attacking the Hindenburg Line, near Le Verguier, Ascension Valley.

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The ruins of Ascension Farm, a strongpoint in the German second line, after captured by the 45th Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force on 18 September 1918.

© IWM (E(AUS) 3260)
45th Australian Battalion attacking the Hindenburg Line. Ascension Valley, near Le Verguier, 18 September 1918.

© IWM (Art.IWM ART 4923)
image: a sketch of a village street leading up to a church tower. Two trees stand in the left foreground, with a man on horseback and two figures on the street. A line of houses leads up to the church.

© IWM (HU 109326)
Captain Walter Rewi Hallahan MC MM. Unit: 11th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 18 September 1918, killed in action, Western Front.
CWGC family information: son of James Patrick and Janet Hallahan, of 178, Hare St., Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Born at Westport, New Zealand.