posted on 2024-02-23, 14:15authored byGreat War Archive Project Team
<p dir="ltr">Photograph of Ypres notice. Reads 'Notice. This is holy ground. No stone of this fabric may be taken away. It is a heritage for all civilised peoples. By order Town Mayor Ypres'. </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>