A Remarkable Dso To Captain E. C. Lance GTRexclude To have earned the 1914-1915

To have earned the 1914-1915 Star and the Victory Medal

he was named Acting Corporal at Lower Dibgate on June 8th

Annie Findlay Dunn of Heaton

indented in Roman capitals: THOMAS ROONEY

A Remarkable Dso To Captain E. C. Lance GTRexclude To have earned the 1914-1915A remarkable Great War D. S. O. group of seven awarded to Captain E. C. Lance, Somerset Light Infantry, late King Edward? s Horse and West Yorkshire Regiment, who was twice honoured by Franco for his part in rescuing a hundred nationalists in the Spanish Civil War: high on the republicans? wanted list as "The Man in the Tartan Jacket", Lance was eventually captured by them and sentenced to death, but ultimately lived to tell the tale after 15 months