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58660: German artillery panorama, Vermelles

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posted on 2024-02-23, 23:00 authored by Great 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.

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Identifier

9052.cpd| 4042.jpg|GWA_2426_ricepanorama1.jpg 4043.jpg|GWA_2427_ricepanorama2.jpg 4044.jpg|GWA_2428_ricepanorama3.jpg

Creator

Unknown

Date

1914 - 1918

Date Created

01/08/1914

Temporal Coverage

31/12/1918

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Type

Official document

Pages

1, 2, 3

Number of Pages

3

Contributor

Richard Marshall | Stuart Lee | P Vainker

Rights

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

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