A Royal Grenadiers Chance for the Victoria Cross (Low Res)


Title: A Royal Grenadiers Chance for the Victoria Cross (Low Res)
Creator: Grip P. & P. Co.
Subject: Illustrated War News, 1885 Resistance, Métis
Description: This is title page to The Canadian Pictorial & Illustrated War News dated June 13, 1885 (Vol. I. No. 11). It is in a horizontal format and includes a smaller circular inset in the right-hand column. The text included with these images is as follows: “Our Special Artist with Gen. Middleton’s command carrying off a wounded comrade from the battlefield at Batoche. Portrait of Col. Sergt. F. W. Curzon, of “G” Company, Royal Grenadiers, from a photograph by Dixon”. “’Sergeant Curzon attended my Ambulance Class last winter, and learned how to stop bleeding. His knowledge enabled him to save the life of a man who was shot through the main artery of the arm and was fast bleeding to death. He did it under fire’ – Private letter from Dr. Ryerson, Asst. Surgeon, 10th R.G”. Sergeant Curzon also illustrated many of the sketches that appeared in The Canadian Pictorial & Illustrated War News during the course of the journal’s reporting of the 1885 Resistance.

Publisher: Grip P. & P. Co.
Date: June 3, 1885
Type: Image
Format: .pdf
Identifier: CPIWN124.1
Date of Copyright: March 10, 2006
GDI Media Filename: CPIWN124 (Medium).jpg

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