Cautiously working their way across the shell-swept plains of Picardy in the great Somme push.

Cautiously working their way across the shell-swept plains of Picardy in the great Somme push.

Photograph

Realistic Travels

Cautiously working their way across the shell-swept plains of Picardy in the great Somme push.

From The Great War


1916
Gelatin silver print, printed later
Each image: 8 x 7.7 cm
Mount: 9 x 18 cm
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2005
2005.0805.0030
Inscriptions recto (stamped in black ink): REALISTIC TRAVELS / LONDON-CAPETOWN-BOMBAY-MELBOURNE-TORONTO / 49 / BY ROYAL COMMAND OF THEIR IMPERIAL MAJESTIES / KING GEORGE V AND QUEEN MARY / Realistic / (c) / Travels / Cautiously working their way across the shell-swept / plains of Picardy in the great Somme push.

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