Cyril Bassett, awarded the Victoria Cross (VC) for 'conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty' on Chunuk Bair during the Gallipoli campaign, is congratulated by fellow New Zealand soldiers in this silent cinema newsreel by Pathé News (now British Pathé), circa February-June 1916. Bassett — the New Zealand Expeditionary Force's (NZEF) first VC winner — is pictured on the shoulders of two soldiers, and walking down steps outside New Zealand government offices in London.
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