posted on 2024-02-23, 23:00authored byGreat War Archive Project Team
German artillery panorama centred on Vermelles. Pencil inscription reads 'Taken by L. T. P. from the body of a dead German. The war front from the German position'.
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.