When the sluices were opened at Nieuport, floods and barbed wire brought disaster to the Hun troops

When the sluices were opened at Nieuport, floods and barbed wire brought disaster to the Hun troops

Photograph

Realistic Travels

When the sluices were opened at Nieuport, floods and barbed wire brought disaster to the Hun troops

From The Great War


ca. 1914
Gelatin silver print, printed later
Each image: 8 x 7.7 cm
Mount: 9 x 18 cm
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2005
2005.0805.0009
Inscriptions recto (stamped in black ink): REALISTIC TRAVELS / LONDON-CAPETOWN-BOMBAY-MELBOURNE-TORONTO / 17 / BY ROYAL COMMAND OF THEIR IMPERIAL MAJESTIES / KING GEORGE V AND QUEEN MARY / Realistic / (c) / Travels / When the sluices were opened at Nieuport, floods / and barbed wire brought disaster to the Hun troops.

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