53832: Photographs of Ypres notice

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'.

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.