posted on 2024-02-23, 14:16authored byGreat War Archive Project Team
From a series of French postcards showing ruined towns. Captioned: '110. Albert (Somme), vue interieure no. 1 de la Basilique. Interior of the Basilic'.
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
4095.jpg|
GWA_2483_ricealbert.jpg|
Subject
Unknown
Date
August 1918 - December 1918
Date Created
01/08/1918
Temporal Coverage
31/12/1918
Source
Postcard
Medium
Card
Type
Postcard
Contributor
Richard Marshall | Stuart Lee | P Vainker
Rights
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor