Item WOR/1/1 - Photograph album: A Visit to the Battle-fields 1921

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WOR/1/1

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Photograph album: A Visit to the Battle-fields 1921

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  • 1921 (Creation)

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1 volume, Album

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Brown album of photographgraphs taken at various First World War, battlefields in France and Belgium. The album is entitled 'A Visit to the Battle-Fields [sic] 1921' and includes photographs of sites of the Somme and Ancre between Albert and Ypres.

Photo 1 - [the members of the group, all members of the armed forces, likely RFC -page is loose]
Photos 2-5 - Albert, The Cathedral
Photo 6 - The Ancre, near Hamel Station
Photo 7 - Hamel, View From British Line 1915
Photo 8 - 'Y' Ravine (Beaumont Hamel), Behind the German Dug-Outs
Photo 9 - 'Y' Ravine, A German Dug-Out
Photo 10 - 'Y' Ravine, 'Officers' Mess'
Photo 11 - La Boiselle, Reclaimed Battle-ground
Photo 12 - La Boiselle, La Grande Mine [Lochnagar Crater]
Photo 13 - Pozieres, German O.P.
Photo 14 - Pozieres, Entrance to Dug-Out (German O.P.)
Photo 15 - Pozieres, Monument to A.I.F. [Australian Imperial Force]
Photo 16 - Ypres, The Cathedral
Photo 17 - Ypres, The Cloth Hall
Photo 18 - La Hooge, The Tank Cemetry[sic]
Photo 19 - La Hooge, A German O.P.
Photo 20 - La Hooge, The Remains of A German Dug-Out
Photo 21 - Poelcapelle, 'Sunk in Flanders' Mud'
Photo 22 - Poelcapelle, The British Cemetery (20,000 graves)
Photo 23 - Mt. Kemmel, The Southern Defence of Ypres
Photo 24 - Hazebrouck
Photo 25 - 'On Leave'

Also includes a hand drawn map of the western front 'specifically drawn for The Alleyn's School Cadet Corps', stuck on inside cover.

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      An account of this trip to the battlefields is given in the Polytechnic Magazine July 1921

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