Photographs with bullet hole

Item

Title

Photographs with bullet hole

Identifier

9373.cpd

Subject

Unknown

Abstract

The pictures are of a wife and child sent to her husband.
Immediately after the birth he went to France where he received and kept the photographs in his wallet.

The hole or tear in them indicates the bullet that killed him.

Date

1914 - 1918

Date Created

1915-04-01

Temporal Coverage

1915-04-30

Source

Photograph

Medium

Photographic paper

Type

Photograph

number of pages

2

Contributor

Everett Sharp
Everett Sharp (Edinburgh Library Submission Day June 4th 2008)
Robert Johnson

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford