News from the Eastern Front (photo)

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christwigg
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16 years ago

I said i'd look this up when we got home.

The Russian forces overran most of the region in 1914 after defeating the Austro-Hungarian army in a chaotic frontier battle in the opening months of the war. They were in turn pushed out in the spring and summer of 1915 by a combined German and Austro-Hungarian offensive.

So the newspaper was from early 1915.

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PeteHall
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16 years ago

That would fit in with the zeppelin story too, good work :smartass:

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RJV
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16 years ago

One article refers to a Lieutenant Commander Martin Eric Nasmith being awarded the VC as reported by the London Gazette.

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The report was made in the London Gazette on 25th June 1915 so I presume the paper would be dated within a day or two of that.

http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/issues/29206/pages/6166

It seems that his VC was partly won as a result of turning back from safety to escort a coal ship to port.