Photo of Royce Dyer– Royce Coleman Dyer in mid-1916. He will be awarded the Military Medal and the Bar for his courage on the Somme. After receiving the DCM for his determination during the fight for the city of Onega, he will raise in late 1918 the famous 'Dyer's Battalion' in Russia, made of ex-Red army prisoners. Only pneumonia was able to bring him down, December 30, 1918.