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58717: Postcard showing German Army being welcomed back to Cologne after Armistice

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German army marching through Cologne after the Armistice: 'The German Retreat. Notice the Crowds - about when we came through!'

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

9061.cpd| 4076.jpg|GWA_2464_ricegermanarmy1.jpg 4077.jpg|GWA_2465_ricegermanarmy2.jpg

Subject

Unknown

Date

November 1918 | November 1918

Date Created

01/11/1918

Temporal Coverage

30/11/1918

Source

Postcard

Medium

Photographic paper

Type

Photograph

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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