53843: Postcard of British Tavern in Ypres

A postcard showing a temporary wooden building: 'British Tavern, Cafe, Restaurant', in 'Ypres - Grand'Place'. Erected soon after the war to cater to troops and the first battlefield tourists.

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.