posted on 2024-02-23, 14:15authored byGreat War Archive Project Team
German propaganda photograph of German corpses. Possibly connected with the 'Kindermord zu Ypren' (also known as the 'Schlacht von Langemarck': 'saughter at Langemarck'), the massacre of the Innocents during the First Battle of Ypres, October to November 1914: German Student Reservists, advancing on French and British positions, suffered very heavy casualties.
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
4075.jpg|
GWA_2463_rice618deadgermans.jpg|
Subject
Unknown
Date
1914
Date Created
01/08/1914
Temporal Coverage
31/12/1914
Source
Postcard
Medium
Photographic paper
Type
Photograph
Contributor
Richard Marshall | Stuart Lee | P Vainker
Rights
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor