Eve of Distinction by Mark Churms. (AP) SHN63 Leningrad 17th February 1943

Leningrad 17th February 1943

8th October 1918 by David Pentland

Formidable commander of Jasta Boelcke

These were the first two enemy aircraft downed by pilots flying for the American Air Service

Eve of Distinction by Mark Churms. (AP) SHN63 Leningrad 17th February 1943DHM370AP. Eve of Distinction by Mark Churms. Lt. John Rouse Merriot Chard, Royal Engineers. At about 3. 30 on the afternoon of 22nd January 1879, Lieutenant John Rouse Merriot Chard, Royal Engineers, was supervising repairs on the military pont on the Mzinyathi river, at the border crossing at Rorkes Drift, when survivors brought news that the advanced British camp at Isandhlwana had been over run by the Zulus, and that a wing of the Zulu army was on