posted on 2024-02-23, 13:46authored byGreat War Archive Project Team
Walter Lynn is in this photograph. Dated with the message "To Ma with love from Wally Xmas 1917".
Editors Comment: Note the 'battle patches', dark rectangles to be seen on the upper arms of several of the men pictured. These were worn to ease identification in combat, and confuse the enemy.
History
Identifier
3404.jpg|
GWA_1656_1Group1917.jpg|
Subject
Lynn, Walter
Date
December 1917
Date Created
01/12/1917
Temporal Coverage
31/12/1917
Source
Postcard
Medium
Photographic paper
Type
Photograph
Pages
1
Number of Pages
4
Contributor
Richard Marshall | Jennifer Bangs
Rights
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor