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Message bearers coming down a shell shattered road
Message bearers coming down a shell shattered road
With dead animals (possibly horses) and shot-off branches lying on the road, these two message carriers could be forgiven for thinking that they were travelling on the road to Hell. The small holdalls on the men’s chests would have been used for carrying messages between units. Looking closely at the trees, it is possible to see the marks left by the branches before they were shot off by gunfire. …
Contributors
- Thomas Keith, b. 1879 Aitken
Subject
- Battlefields
- Dead animals
- Destruction
- Roads
- Shells (ammunition)
- Soldiers
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Contributors
- Thomas Keith, b. 1879 Aitken
Subject
- Battlefields
- Dead animals
- Destruction
- Roads
- Shells (ammunition)
- Soldiers
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
- 1914 - 1920
- 1914/1920
- 2005
Places
- Europe, France (nation )
Identifier
- 74548982
Extent
- 1 online resource
Is part of
- http://data.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Collection/a1219
Year
- 2005
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-04-06T13:22:47.654Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-05-31T08:45:48.594Z