A warrior is born German prisoners transport injured British Captain Benjamin Geary during the Second Battle of the Somme (1918), image from August 21, 1918. Benjamin Handley Geary was born in 1891 while being educated at Keble College in Oxford, graduating in 1910. From 1912 to 1913 he was a professor, before being called up to fight in WWI from August 15, 1914 with the rank of second lieutenant. He served in the East Surrey Regiment and was soon deployed to France. Second Lieutenant Geary was on Hill 60 near Ypres when the battle of such hill began on April 17, 1915. From April 20 to April 21, Geary and his men were caught in a fierce defensive struggle. Facing machine gun fire, Geary led his men through exposed terrain to help another regiment desperately defend itself in a crater at the top of Hill 60. The crater was bombed with heavy artillery, causing serious casualties to British defenders. Armed with only rifles, hand grenades and plenty of rush, Geary and his men repelled atta...