Letter describing how the photograph after an advance on the Somme (13th Royal Fusiliers) was taken
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Title
Letter describing how the photograph after an advance on the Somme (13th Royal Fusiliers) was taken
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Identifier
9511.cpd
Subject
Foakes, Horace
Abstract
This letter is from the son of Horace Foakes to his family. It describes how a famous photograph of a group of soldiers (13th BN Royal Fusiliers) was taken after their advance on the Somme on the 7th July 1916.
The photograph has been contributed separately to the archive, along with Horace Foakes memoirs of how he won his military medal.
The photograph has been contributed separately to the archive, along with Horace Foakes memoirs of how he won his military medal.
Date
22nd August 2002
Date Created
1917-04-01
Temporal Coverage
1917-12-31
Source
Leaf
Medium
Paper
Type
Letter
number of pages
2
Contributor
Admin
Janet Mercer
Publisher
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford