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60942: Photographs with bullet hole

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posted on 2024-02-18, 22:36 authored by Great War Archive Project Team

The pictures are of a wife and child sent to her husband.
Immediately after the birth he went to France where he received and kept the photographs in his wallet.

The hole or tear in them indicates the bullet that killed him.

History

Identifier

9373.cpd| 6359.jpg|GWA_5403_bullet2.jpg 6360.jpg|GWA_5404_bullet.jpg

Subject

Unknown

Date

1914 - 1918

Date Created

01/04/1915 | 01/08/1914

Temporal Coverage

30/04/1915 | 31/12/1918

Source

Photograph

Medium

Photographic paper

Type

Photograph

Pages

1, 2

Number of Pages

2

Contributor

Everett Sharp | Everett Sharp | Robert Johnson

Submission Event

Edinburgh Library Submission Day, 4th June 2008

Rights

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

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