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Portrait of Francis Alexander Caron Scrimger, VC, MD. Worked with 2nd Canadian Field Ambulance unit during 2nd Battle of Ypres, and has been credited with giving the order to urinate on handkerchiefs during chlorine gas attack on Canadian lines ('though it is questionable whether he originated the order). Won a VC on 25 April, 1915, during that battle.
Source

First World War.com, vintage photographs, from: Mumby, F.A., ed. (1915-17). The Great World War: A History. Five volumes, Gresham Publishing Company.
Date

23 April, 2007
Author

Unknown, published more than 70 years ago.
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Web site copyrights original content only. For use in articles on Second Battle of Ypres and F.A.C. Scrimger Esseh 23:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

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