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Summer has been changed to winter by the British guns
Summer has been changed to winter by the British guns
Battlefield on Messines Ridge, Belgium, 1917. The landscape is dominated by broken off and stripped trees. The ground is very muddy and full of craters. The entrance and supports to a dugout are outlined in the middle of the picture. The Battle of Messines Ridges (June 1917), commanded by General Plumer (1857-1932), was a successful relief of German pressure on the French Army. The British dug…
Contributors
- Ernest, British official photographer Brooks
Subject
- Battlefields
- Bunkers
- Craters
- Landscapes (environments)
- Mud
- Trees
- War damage
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Contributors
- Ernest, British official photographer Brooks
Subject
- Battlefields
- Bunkers
- Craters
- Landscapes (environments)
- Mud
- Trees
- War damage
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Rights
- Available under Creative Commons license; Attribution, Non-commercial, ShareAlike
Issue date
- 2005
- 1917
- 1917
- 1917
- 1917
- 2005
Places
- Europe, Belgium, Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Mesen (inhabited place)
Identifier
- 74545956
Extent
- 1 online resource
Is part of
- http://data.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Collection/a1219
Year
- 2005
- 1917
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-04-06T12:16:07.954Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-05-31T08:45:14.853Z