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Remembered Today:

Baseball Game, Étrun, 15 May 1918


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101 YEARS AGO TODAY:  Baseball Game in which British, Canadian and Australian troops took part, Étrun, France, 15 May, 1918.  A nurse of the Voluntary Aid Detachment bandaging the head of an officer who had a car accident, Near St. Pol.  Gunners of the Royal Field Artillery watering their horses, near Mont St. Eloi, which can be seen in the background.  Gunners of the Royal Field Artillery training their horses in gas mask drill near Mont St. Eloi, note the battered towers of the Abbey.  An old French woman about to leave her home in Amiens, handing her canaries to a British soldier, 15 May 1918. She is wearing a French Army 'casque' (helmet).  The fox cub mascot of No. 32 Squadron on the fuselage of a Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a at Humieres aerodrome, near St Pol.  Pilots of No. 32 Squadron. Captain Wilfred Barrat Green DFC (British), Lt. George Edgar Bruce Lawson (South African), Lt. Henry Clifford Leese (New Zealand), Lt. R.E.L. McBean (Canadian), Lt. Parr Hooper (USA K.I.A. 10 June 1918). Humieres aerodrome, near St. Pol.  The Pilot (Raymond P. Collishaw, CB, DSO & Bar, OBE, DSC, DFC) and Observer of a Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 biplane (serial number B5106) of No. 59 Squadron with their puppy mascot, Vert-Galland Aerodrome, 15 May 1918.

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