Topical Budget: Chiswick’s Gallant Gunner, Chiswick (1916)
ProRes digital file Black & White Mute 1916 0:56
Summary: Smiling soldier receives war medal
Title number: 19845
LSA ID: LSA/26290
Description: Three cheers for Maurice Samuels, as a Chiswick tram driver receives a medal for bravery at the Western Front at Ypres. Major General Lord Cheylesmore, a peer, soldier and chairman of the London County Council, leads the cheers after pinning a Military Medal to the chest of Maurice Samuels, a Chiswick tram driver who rescued wounded soldiers under fire at Ypres. Samuels smiles at the camera, while women behind stand grinning.
Cast: Herbert Eaton, Maurice Samuels
Further information: Samuels, who volunteered at the war’s outbreak and was twice severely wounded at Ypres himself, survived the war, receiving a medical discharge in December 1916.
Keywords: Ceremony; Wounds and Injuries; soldiers; medal
Locations: London
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