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58701: Christmas Card, 1918

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Christmas card, 1918. Reads '351 Siege Battery R. G. A., Xmas 1918, "Die Wacht am Rhein"'. Silhouette of gunners serving an Artillery piece.

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.

No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station was located in Namur over Christmas, 1918.

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Identifier

9051.cpd| 4040.jpg|GWA_2424_ricewatch.jpg 4041.jpg|GWA_2425_ricewatch2.jpg

Subject

Pearson, Leonard Thomas

Date

December 1918 | December 1918

Date Created

01/12/1918

Temporal Coverage

31/12/1918

Source

Postcard

Medium

Card

Type

Postcard

Pages

1, 2

Number of Pages

2

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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