A WAR hero shot multiple times has been commemorated for his bravery in a recent tank exhibition.
Elliott Hotblack was awarded a Military Cross for gallantry in September 1918.
He is one of the most decorated soldiers celebrated in the Tank Museum’s WW1 exhibition: Tank Men.
The display follows the stories of eight men through WW1 and beyond.
Joining the Army in 1914 as an officer, he was shot by a sniper during the Battle of Festubert.
Two years later in 1917, he was wounded again, suffering a suspected fractured skull on the first day of the battle of Arras.
He was evacuated to a Red Cross hospital but then "escaped" to return to his comrades.
While attacking a German position his tank was knocked out.
Despite being injured he made sure the wounded got to safety and defended against an impending German counter-attack.
Now - more than a hundred years on - his family visited the Tank Museum to pay their respects to their "much admired ancestor".
They gave the museum curator David Willey wine from Cambrai, France - the location of the famous tank advance in 1917.
Within the museum’s archive is a card wishing “Christmas Greetings” from Hotblack himself.
Curator David Willey, said: “Hotblack, who went on to become a Major-General, was one of the most extraordinary early Tank Corps officers.
“He was a boys’ own hero of outstanding bravery but also intelligent, very human and caring,"
He added: "We have an exhibition in which his story is told, and he is depicted with a life-size model, and this Christmas card adds another angle to his and the other servicemen’s lives."
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