58699: Photograph and postcard of Bailleul

Photographs of Bailleul showing damage casued by bombardment. The first heaving shelling of the town took place in July 1917.

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.