Letter describing how the photograph after an advance on the Somme (13th Royal Fusiliers) was taken

Item

Title

Letter describing how the photograph after an advance on the Somme (13th Royal Fusiliers) was taken

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.

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