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61st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery

 

55th Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery

 

Lieutenant Abner Gladstone Virtue - 61st Fld Bty

 

© IWM (Q 12121)
Sopwith Camel biplane of No. 203 Squadron after a forced landing at Noyelles-sur-Escaut, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 72920)
Lieutenant Colonel B. C. Goss of the American Chemical War Service starting a smoke screen near Beaucamp, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 7083)
Battle of Cambrai. 
Troops of the American 30th Infantry Division awaiting orders in a sunken road at Premont following their capture of the village on the afternoon of 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 7084)
Battle of Cambrai. 
Troops of the American 30th Infantry Division moving forward during their advance on the village of Premont, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 7085)
Battle of Cambrai. 
Cavalry signallers (possibly Royal Scots Greys) ducking to avoid splinters from a shell bursting on Premont, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 7086)
Battle of Cambrai. 
Premont immediately after its capture by the 30th American Division, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 7087)
Battle of Cambrai. 
Premont being shelled just after its capture, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 7088)
Battle of Cambrai. 
A British soldier covering a captured German 10.5 cm (105 mm) FH 98/09 howitzer with a French flag. Premont, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 7111)
Battle of Cambrai. 
Men of the 20th Battalion, Manchester Regiment (25th Division) resting by a tank (serial number 9891), disabled by side-slipping down a railway embankment. 
Near Premont, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 7113)
Battle of Cambrai. 
Men of the 20th Battalion, Manchester Regiment (25th Division) resting by a tank (serial number 9891), disabled by side-slipping down a railway embankment. 
Near Premont, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 7157)
Men and transport of the 1st Cavalry Division waiting in readiness near Premont, 8 October 1918. 
Note the Cavalry field ambulance.

 

© IWM (Q 7158)
Men of the Royal Horse Artillery attached to the 1st Cavalry Division firing at a German plane with a Hotchkiss M1909 machine gun fixed to a limber. 
Convoys were favourite targets with the enemy airmen and were provided with anti-aircraft defence of this kind. 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9383)
A British Officer in front of the ruins of Albert Church, 8th October 1918. 
The Church and Tower were destroyed in March.

 

© IWM (Q 9631)
Battle of Cambrai. 
A British dressing station in a French Chateau near Noyelles-sur-l'Escaut, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9632)
Battle of Cambrai. 
Prisoners carrying wounded crossing the Scheldt by pontoon bridge. Near Noyelles, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9513)
Battle of Cambrai. 
Prisoners taken by 63rd (Royal Naval) Division being marched in near Noyelles, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9514)
Battle of Cambrai. 
Prisoners taken by 63rd (Royal Naval) Division being marched in near Noyelles, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9515)
Battle of Cambrai. 
Gunners resting beside their gun-team whilst awaiting orders during the move forward. Near Noyelles, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9516)
Battle of Cambrai. 
Artillery moving forward along the bank of the Escaut near Noyelles, 8 October 1918. (See also Q 9633)

 

© IWM (Q 9517)
Battle of Cambrai. 
Artillery moving forward along the bank of the Escaut near Noyelles, 8 October 1918. (See also Q 9633)

 

© IWM (Q 9518)
Chaplain writing letters for wounded at a dressing station near Noyelles, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9519)
Battle of Cambrai. 
Prisoners carrying wounded across the Escaut near Noyelles by a pontoon bridge, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9631)
Battle of Cambrai. 
A British dressing station in a French Chateau near Noyelles-sur-l'Escaut, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9632)
Battle of Cambrai. 
Prisoners carrying wounded crossing the Scheldt by pontoon bridge. Near Noyelles, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 9633)
Battle of Cambrai. 
Prisoners carrying wounded crossing the Scheldt by pontoon bridge. Near Noyelles, 8 October 1918. (See also Q 9515)

 

© IWM (Q 11371)
Battle of Cambrai. 
German prisoners working as stretcher bearers in the grounds of a chateau (just outside Cambrai) used as a British 57th Division's advanced dressing station, 8 October
1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11372)
Battle of Cambrai. German prisoners bringing in British wounded to the 57th Division's advanced dressing station (in the grounds of a chateau, just outside Cambrai), 8
October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11373)
Battle of Cambrai. 
British soldier carrying in a wounded friend on his shoulders. Near Cambrai, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11374)
Battle of Cambrai. 
The canalised Scheldt river near Cambrai showing a footbridge which was built and destroyed by the Germans, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11375)
Battle of Cambrai. 
A wounded German prisoner in the grounds of a chateau (just outside Cambrai) used as a British 57th Division's advanced dressing station, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11376)
Battle of Cambrai. 
German prisoners bringing in British wounded to the 57th Division's advanced dressing station (in the grounds of a chateau, just outside Cambrai), 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11377)
Battle of Cambrai. A German shell-burst in a field near Cambrai. 
Soldiers of the Machine Gun Corps hurrying to get into the cover of their post, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11378)
Battle of Cambrai. Soldiers of the Machine Gun Corps crossing a field under shellfire, hurrying to the cover of their post. 
Note a body of a dead British soldier in field, 8 October 1918.

 

© IWM (Q 11435)
Battle of Cambrai. Troops of the 10th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, the Pioneers of the British 2nd Division, building a pontoon across the canalised
Scheldt river, 8 October 1918. 
There are German prisoners with them.

 

© IWM (Q 11436)
Battle of Cambrai. 
Troops of the 10th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, the Pioneers of the British 2nd Division, repairing the pontoon bridge across the canalised Scheldt
river (seen in Q 11435) which has received a direct hit. 8 October 1918. 
There are German prisoners with them.

 

© IWM (Q 11437)
Battle of Cambrai. Royal Engineers of the 24th Division constructing a pontoon bridge over the canalised Scheldt river, outside Cambrai. 8th October 1918.