Printed sketches of Western Front: Dugouts; Camp; a Tank.

Item

Title

Printed sketches of Western Front: Dugouts; Camp; a Tank.

Identifier

9114.cpd

Abstract

Pencil sketches of the Western Front from unkown printed publication: Officers resting in a tented camp; dugout entrances, one named 'ye rate hole'; interior of a dugout with men at rest on bunks; a Mark I 'Female' tank (armed with Vickers Machine Guns) with steering wheel assembly to rear.

Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph.

Date

September 1916 - 1917

Date Created

1916-09-01

Temporal Coverage

1917-12-31

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Type

Publication

number of pages

4

Contributor

Richard Marshall
Stuart Lee
P Vainker

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford