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Proudest Mother of All Speakman Presented With V.C. At Palace -- A proud Bill Speakman of the Black Watch shows his mother the Victoria Cross presented to him when the Queen held her first Investiture at Buckingham Palace to-day. The 24-year-old solider of Altrincham, Cheshire, won the decoration in Korea. February 27, 1952.
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Proudest Mother of All Speakman Presented With V.C. At Palace -- A proud Bill Speakman of the Black Watch shows his mother the Victoria Cross presented to him when the Queen held her first Investiture at Buckingham Palace to-day. The 24-year-old solider of Altrincham, Cheshire, won the decoration in Korea. February 27, 1952.
Credit:
Album / SuperStock / Sydney Morning Herald
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Image size:
1541 x 2264 px | 10.0 MB
Print size:
13.0 x 19.2 cm | 5.1 x 7.5 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
1952 • 20TH CENTURY • ARCHIVAL • ARCHIVE • ARCHIVES • ARMIES ARMY • ARMIES • ARMY • BILL SPEAKMAN • BLACK AND WHITE • BRITISH • CADRE • EDITORIAL • HEIMWEHR (AUSTRIAN MILITIA) • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL • HOMESICKNESS • IMAGES • IN PAINTINGS • INTERIORS: IN PAINTINGS • KOREAN WAR • LONGING (NOSTALGIA) • MILITARY • NOSTALGIA • NOSTALGIC • PAINTING (ACTIVITY) • PAINTING • PAINTINGS • PAST • PAST, THE • PICTURE • PICTURES • PTE WILLIAM SPEAKMAN • RETRO • SOLDIER • TWO PEOPLE • VICTORIA CROSS • VINTAGE • WANDERLUST • WILLIAM SPEAKMAN-PITT • WISTFULNESS • WOEFULNESS
