Description
Object description
Black and white photographs covering a pilgrimage visit to the Western Front battlefields in 1920 by a couple of British officers (one called Clayton). The photographs show: Arcy Wood (German 11-inch naval gun position); Bailleul (ruins of town hall, Gland Place); Bedford House; Bellenglise; Boesinghe (showing Yser Canal); Bray-sur-Somme; the Butte de Warlencourt; Corbie (church); Cuinchy (machine gun post in brickstack); Elverdinghe Chateau; Givenchy (church ruins, Moated Farm, White Horse Crater, British machine gun post and dugout); Gorre (55th Division graves - each cross marked with a red rose of Lancashire badge); Hell Fire Corner (looking down the Menin Road); Herberg de Linde (house used as billet on Elverdinghe - Poperinghe road); High Wood (50th Northumbrian Division memorial, view of wood from Martinpuich road); Hill 60; Hooge; La Laiterie Cemetery; Langemarck (including road with knocked out British tank); Loos (mine crater near village); Messines Ridge (looking toward Vierstraat - with civilian workers in foreground, German pillbox); Mt Kemmel and site of York House; Mt St Quentin (looking towards Bapaume); Parroy Farm; Peronne; Poperinghe (including Talbot House); Potijze Chateau; Railway Wood and mine crater beside Ypres - Roulers railway; St Julien (village and 1915 battlefield looking north east from the Wieltje - St Julien road); Salvation Corner; Sanctuary Wood and Observation Ridge (from Menin Road); Shrapnel Corner; Spree Farm (German pillbox); the Steenbeek; Vlamertinghe; Wieltje (including temporary houses); Wyschaete; Y Wood; Ypres (Cloth Hall, Lille Gate, Menin Gate, St Martins Cathedral, infantry barracks, the Ramparts, railway crossing looking toward the Asylum, the 'Dead End' of the Yser Canal ); Zillebeke (showing temporary housing).
Physical description
Black and white photographic prints with handwritten caption appearing on border of image.