65948: Boche Machine Gun

online resource

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

Sketch drawing in pencil by David Jones inscribed 'Boche Machine Gun / Elverdinghe sector / captured by the 15th RWF [Royal Welch Fusiliers] / 5.9.17 [5 September 1917] / during an attack on Pilkem Ridge at Langemarck which began in July 1917'. Initialled DJ.

History

Identifier

6390.JPG | DJRWF05.JPG

Creator

Jones, David (1895-1974)

Date

Sep-17

Date Created

01/09/1917

Temporal Date

30/09/1917

Spatial

Langemarck

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.1

Repository Name

The Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum

Repository Address

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

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive