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Image Not Available for A recently shelled road showing the difficulties encountered in bringing up transport under conditions such as here depicted. The weather has enormously increased the difficulties but the British soldier as usual makes light of it
A recently shelled road showing the difficulties encountered in bringing up transport under conditions such as here depicted. The weather has enormously increased the difficulties but the British soldier as usual makes light of it
Image Not Available for A recently shelled road showing the difficulties encountered in bringing up transport under conditions such as here depicted. The weather has enormously increased the difficulties but the British soldier as usual makes light of it

A recently shelled road showing the difficulties encountered in bringing up transport under conditions such as here depicted. The weather has enormously increased the difficulties but the British soldier as usual makes light of it

Creator Ernest Brooks (British)
CreatorPress Agency, Newspaper Illustrations, Ltd
Date1917
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions22 x 17 cm (8 11/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2008
Category
Object number2008/7892
LocationNot currently on display

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Image Not Available for Battle of the Menin Road Ridge. Dressing station at Potijze Chateau, showing some of the hundreds of wounded German prisoners
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Image Not Available for Battle of Flanders. One of a batch recently captured Germans assuaging his thirst
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