Official German Cards showing '618 dead Germans'
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Official German Cards showing '618 dead Germans'
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Unknown
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Notes |
German propaganda photograph of German corpses. Possibly connected with the 'Kindermord zu Ypren' (also known as the 'Schlacht von Langemarck': 'saughter at Langemarck'), the massacre of the Innocents during the First Battle of Ypres, October to November 1914: German Student Reservists, advancing on French and British positions, suffered very heavy casualties.
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
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Unknown
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Cataloguer |
Richard Marshall
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Filename |
GWA_2463_rice618deadgermans.jpg
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Copyright |
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
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Contributor name |
Stuart Lee
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Contributed on the behalf of |
P Vainker
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Collection
Citation
“Official German Cards showing '618 dead Germans',” The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/4069.
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