Letter describing how the photograph after an advance on the Somme (13th Royal Fusiliers) was taken
| Title |
Letter describing how the photograph after an advance on the Somme (13th Royal Fusiliers) was taken
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| Subject |
Foakes, Horace
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| Notes |
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. |
| Item date |
22nd August 2002
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| Creation place |
Unknown
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| Content | |
| Total number of pages |
2
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| Cataloguer |
Admin
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| Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
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| Digital repository | |
| Contributor name |
Janet Mercer
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Collection
Citation
“Letter describing how the photograph after an advance on the Somme (13th Royal Fusiliers) was taken,” The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed May 18, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/9499.
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