Press cutting detailing 'Angel of Mons' story
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Press cutting detailing 'Angel of Mons' story
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Unknown
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Notes |
Cutting titled 'An Angelic [......] | Strange Experiences, | The following account is published in the current issue of the 'All Saints', Clifton, Parish Magazine:-'.
Details the supposed sighting of Angels by beleaguered British troops during the Battle of Mons, 23rd August 1914. Part of the photograph and scrap album of Revd. Leonard Thomas Pearson, Army Chaplain's Department (attached No. 44 Casualty Clearing Station), discovered in a skip and deposited with the Bodlian Library. Revd. Pearson was interviewed by Lyn Macdonald for her book 'The Roses of No Man's Land', which contains two extracts and a photograph. |
Item date |
1914 - 1918
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Unknown
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Cataloguer |
Richard Marshall
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Filename |
GWA_2472_riceangelofmons.jpg
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Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
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Digital repository | |
Contributor name |
Stuart Lee
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Contributed on the behalf of |
P Vainker
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Collection
Citation
“Press cutting detailing 'Angel of Mons' story,” The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 28, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/4078.
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