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Edmund Blunden Visiting Battlefields

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Title
Edmund Blunden Visiting Battlefields
Subject
Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974)
Notes
Photograph of Edmund Blunden consulting a diary at a battlefield near Grootebeek. Photograph taken by Edmund's daughter Margi Blunden on a visit. They stayed at Skindles Hotel in Poperinghe. Blunden spent time there during a relatively quiet period in the sector in the first half of 1917 leading up to the battle of Passchendaele, and again in August of the same year.
Item date
August 1965
Creation place
Grootebeek
Item source
Leaf
Item medium
Paper
Writing medium
Published
Content
Photograph
Cataloguer
Alisa Miller
Filename
EBFAM - 045.jpg
Copyright
The Edmund Blunden Literary Estate
Item width
125
Item height
90
Repository name
Blunden Family Private Collection

Citation

“Edmund Blunden Visiting Battlefields,” The Edmund Blunden Literary Estate via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 24, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/9039.

Permitted Use

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