National Army Museum

photograph of painting, photograph

Accession Number

NAM.1951-02-48-1

Description

Cambrai, November 30th 1917. Photograph of painting after F A Stewart, 1920 (c). Associated with Maj Frederick St John Atkinson DSO and Maj Arthur Ion Fraser DSO, 9th Hodson’s Horse. Associated with the Battle of Cambrai, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918) 1917. ‘The German counter-attack having overrun our front line the Guards Division advanced and attacked Gouzeaucourt. The Ambala Cavalry Brigade (8th Hussars leading.) was sent to get in touch with the Guards. One squadron of the 8th Hussars got through to a sunken road near Gauche Wood, but the remainder were held up by the wire at the railway line. The 9th Hodson’s Horse were then ordered to go up on their left to fill the gap. The picture shows Major Atkinson at the head of ‘A’ Squadron moving through a gap in our wire under shell fire from near Gauche Wood. Both Major Atkinson and Major Fraser were killed in this action’.

Events

Cambrai, Battle of, 1917 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)

Units

9th Hodson’s Horse

People

Arthur Ion Fraser DSO, (1879 - 1917)

Frederick St.John Atkinson DSO, (1882 - 1917)

Stewart, Frank Algernon

Dimensions

Width: 570 mm Text: 390 mm Part 1: 490 mm Text: 650 mm

Inscriptions

‘These pictures were presented in 1951 by Mrs Beatson widow of Colonel C. H. Beatson, I.M.S. Medical Officer of the 10th Lancers (Hodson’s Horse) from 1886 to 1905’ ‘The German counter-attack having overrun our front line the Guards Division advanced and attacked Gouzeaucourt. The Ambala Cavalry Brigade (8th Hussars leading.) was sent to get in touch with the Guards. One squadron of the 8th Hussars got through to a sunken road near Gauche Wood, but the remainder were held up by the wire at the railway line. The 9th Hodson’s Horse were then ordered to go up on their left to fill the gap. The picture shows Major Atkinson at the head of ‘A’ Squadron moving through a gap in our wire under shell fire from near Gauche Wood. Both Major Atkinson and Major Fraser were killed in this action’.