Julian Hedworth George Byng, vicomte Byng de Vimy . - 1918

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Held by: Ville de Montréal. Section des archives via Archives de Montréal (Ville de Montréal)
Dates: 1918 (indexed as 1918)
Level: item
Scope & content: Militaire et gouverneur général du Canada de 1921 à 1926, né 11 septembre 1862 à Wrotham Park, en Angleterre; décédé à Essex en Angleterre le 6 juin 1935.
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Extent: 1 document iconographique collé sur un carton.
Format: Photograph
What the image shows: A printed halftone portrait of a British army officer in a peaked cap with a badge, shown from the chest up against a wavy patterned backdrop. He wears a military tunic with shoulder straps, a Sam Browne style belt across his chest, and a row of ribbons on the breast, and has a thick moustache. Below the photograph is a printed caption block in English describing him as a lieutenant-general commanding a British army, with a short paragraph of text beneath, and a handwritten date note in the lower left corner.Described automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
Text in the image: LIEUT.-GEN. THE HON. SIR JULIAN BYNGThe British officer who originated the method of surprise attack without prolonged artillery preparation which has recently been so successfully used in the Allied advance. General Byng commands the British Third Army, operating in the region around the Drocourt-Quéant switch line.Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
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