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Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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NAIK DARWAN SING NEGI, GARHWAL RIFLES, AT FESTUBERT. Awarded the V.C. for great gallantry on the night of November 23-24, 1914, when his regiment was engaged in retaking and clearing the enemy out of the British trenches, and although wounded in two places in the head, and also in the arm, Naik Darwan Sing Negi was one of the first to push round each successive traverse, in the face of severe fire from bombs and rifles at the closest range. helped him Curtiss w^as a few weeks afterwardsreported missing. An officer who had already proved his mettleand had received the D.S.O. was to be addedto the roll of naval V.C.s by the perfonnanceof one of those acts which seem to be peculiarlyassociated witli the British fighting man. Thiswas Lieutenant-Commander Edgar ChristopherCookson, R.X. During the advance on Kut-el-Amara, on September 28, 1915, the river gun-boat Comet and other gunboats had been orderedto examine and if possible destroy three vesselsforming an obstruction which the Turks h

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