Brother Officers

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Brother Officers
Directed by Harold M. Shaw
Written byBannister Merwin
Leo Trevor
Starring Henry Ainley
Lettice Fairfax
Gerald Ames
Charles Rock
Production
company
Release date
  • February 1915 (1915-02)
CountryUnited Kingdom

Brother Officers is a 1915 British silent war film directed by Harold M. Shaw and starring Henry Ainley, Lettice Fairfax and Gerald Ames. [1] It was based on a play by Leo Trevor. A soldier wins the Victoria Cross during the First World War.

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A British made film distributed by Paramount in the United States.

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  1. "Brother Officers (1915)". BFI. Archived from the original on 27 May 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2017.