58719: R.H.S. War Horticultural Relief Fund Postcard

Charity postcard showing road with trees felled on either side. Caption begins: 'A very faint idea of the Devastation wrought by the enemy in the lands of our Allies'. To the rear, a quotation from a letter of Sir Edward Carson, published in 'The Times', Sept. 15, 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.