77th French Regiment Supporting British, Halt at Colummiers Station
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Underwood & Underwood
American, 1880–1931
77th French Regiment Supporting British, Halt at Colummiers Station
ca. 1917
Letterpress print
Image: 7 x 6.7 cm
Overall: 8.2 x 14 cm
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2009
Inscriptions verso (printed in black): No. 37--77TH FRENCH REGIMENT SUPPORTING BRITISH, HALT AT / COLUMMIERS STATION. /
Study the faces of these men of the galliant / 77th, and realize, if you can, that less than five / are now alive. You are looking into the eyes of / dead men, men who died for their country. This / poor fellow in the front row with head bowed / down, seems to scent the danger ahead. He is / probably now thinking of his own, "little kid-/dies" at home, soon to be orphaned, and ema-/ciated for lack of food...[extended text] / Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
Study the faces of these men of the galliant / 77th, and realize, if you can, that less than five / are now alive. You are looking into the eyes of / dead men, men who died for their country. This / poor fellow in the front row with head bowed / down, seems to scent the danger ahead. He is / probably now thinking of his own, "little kid-/dies" at home, soon to be orphaned, and ema-/ciated for lack of food...[extended text] / Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
