Official German Card showing flamethrower
Title |
Official German Card showing flamethrower
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Subject |
Unknown
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Notes |
Photograph of a German portable Flamethrower ('Flammenwerfer'), first used at Verdun in February, 1915.
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 |
June 1916 - July 1917
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Creation place |
Unknown
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Cataloguer |
Richard Marshall
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Filename |
GWA_2462_riceflamethrower.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
“Official German Card showing flamethrower,” The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/4068.
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