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Capt. Edward Neuville daCosta-Andrade MID.
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery

At the outbreak of war in 1914, Edward daCosta-Andrade was commissioned as an artillery officer. He served on the French front from 1915 to 1917, first with a battery of 60-pounders and later with a group of counter-batteries on the Arras salient, where with Lawrence Bragg and others the exact position of the enemy's guns was tracked down with ingenious apparatus. He rose to the rank of captain, and was mentioned in dispatches; he was injured when a shell burst prematurely in a battery gun, and later when a sudden burst of gunfire caused a horse to shy and roll on him. In 1917 he returned to England to work for the Ministry of Munitions on explosives.

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