Description
Object description
Black and white photographic prints and photo-postcards of photographs taken on the Western Front during and after the First World War. Included are a number of German photographs showing French and German dead at Weiverq near Menin in 1915; a German howitzer battery at Mystery Wood in the Levantie sector of the front (shows an NCO taking a photograph); a general view of Lille showing destruction to buildings; Kaiser Wilhelm II and Crown Prince Wilhelm inspecting troops at Cambrai in November 1917 and British prisoners of war marching through Ostend on 11 July 1917. Amongst the British photographs are a number taken in the Ypres Salient some showing abandoned and destroyed British tanks around the Menin Road at Hooge, also scenes of the devastated landscape at 'Stirling Castle' and 'Inverness Copse'; abandoned trench positions at Messines; the Ramparts cemetery at Ypres in November 1917 and a German howitzer captured near Beaumont Hamel in October 1918. The postcards include images of a number of war memorials: the monument to Guynemer at Poelcapelle; Australian Tunnelling Company memorial on Hill 60; the Menin Gate at Ypres; memorial at Steenstraete to commemorate the first gas attack on the Western Front; Canadian memorial at St Julien; Belgian war memorial at Ypres and the Yser Tower at Diksmuide. The Huts British cemetery at Dickebusch and German Maison Blanche cemetery are also included as are images of the Cloth Hall in Ypres and ruined church at Bailleul. There is also an interesting set of souvenir postcards covering the German 15-inch gun position at Moere in Belgium. Many of the photographs have notes relating to the photographs or events and locations depicted. With the Moere gun images is a history of the position during the First World War.
Physical description
Black and white loose photographic prints and postcards all with notes handwritten on the reverse, either directly onto the print / postcard or onto paper which has been glued to the reverse of the print / postcard. The postcards of the Moere gun position are joined together (1 x strip of 4 cards and 1 x strip of 6 cards). The English caption printed onto the card has in each case been underlined in red ink. With this latter set of cards is also the original paper case with additional handwritten notes glued to the inside.