65947: Front line trench on La Bassée front

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posted on 2024-05-02, 12:52 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

<p dir="ltr">Sketch drawing in pencil by David Jones inscribed 'March 1916 / Front line trench on the La Bassée front'. Soldiers cook over a brazier in front of a dugout, a rifle with fixed bayonet lies close to hand.</p>

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Identifier

6389.JPG | DJRWF04.JPG

Subject

Fighting Men | Trench | Western Front

Creator

Jones, David (1895-1974)

Date

Mar-16

Date Created

01/03/1916

Temporal Date

31/03/1916

Spatial

La Bassée

Source

Folio

Medium

Paper

Format

Pencil

Type

Drawing

Contributor

Alisa Miller and Alun Edwards

Rights

The Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum / The David Jones Literary Estate

Collection ID

David Jones Papers RWF 3998b.4

Repository Name

The Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum

Repository Address

The Castle, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, LL55 2AY, UK

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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Keywords

First World War Poetry Digital Archive World War One Drawings Fighting Men Trench Western Front

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0