58267: Trench Number Board

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posted on 2024-05-01, 12:51 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

This photograph shows the number board taken from a dugout in Canal Bank, Ypres. Edmund Blunden spent time there during a relatively quiet period in the sector in the first half of 1917 leading up to the battle of Passchendaele, and again in August of the same year.

History

Identifier

9042.jpg | EBFAM - 055.jpg

Subject

Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974)

Date

January 1917 to April 1917

Date Created

01/01/1917

Temporal Date

31/08/1917

Spatial

Ypres, Belgium

Source

Memborabilia

Medium

Wood

Type

Miscellaneous

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The Edmund Blunden Literary Estate

Repository Name

Blunden Family Private Collection

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Keywords

First World War Poetry Digital Archive World War One Miscellaneous Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974)

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0