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53613: Press cutting detailing 'Angel of Mons' story

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<p dir="ltr">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. </p> <p>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.</p>

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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

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The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

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The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

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