posted on 2024-02-23, 13:57authored byGreat War Archive Project Team
Cutting titled 'An Angelic [......] | Strange Experiences, | The following account is published in the current issue of the 'All Saints', Clifton, Parish Magazine:-'.
Details the supposed sighting of Angels by beleaguered British troops during the Battle of Mons, 23rd August 1914.
Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.
History
Identifier
4084.jpg|
GWA_2472_riceangelofmons.jpg|
Subject
Unknown
Date
1914 - 1918
Date Created
01/08/1914
Temporal Coverage
31/12/1918
Source
Leaf
Medium
Paper
Type
Publication
Contributor
Richard Marshall | Stuart Lee | P Vainker
Rights
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor