'Marine fusiliers involved in a street battle in Diksmuide', Flanders, Belgium mb-code 1645913 Interior view showing the staircase

Interior view showing the staircase at the Cock Tavern

Group of artillery at Tower Bridge

by his father

Johnny Gill

The illustration shows the vessel under way with three pairs of 'sails' being operated manually

'Marine fusiliers involved in a street battle in Diksmuide', Flanders, Belgium mb-code 1645913 Interior view showing the staircase'Marine fusiliers involved in a street battle in Diksmuide', Flanders, Belgium, 1914 (1926). French marines in action during the Battle of the Yser which stopped the German advance and secured the Belgian coast for the Allies in October 1914. The town of Diksmuide was effectively reduced to rubble during World War I and was rebuilt in the 1920s.