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Description: | Photograph album containing prints of photographs taken by the journalist G H Perris during the winter of 1914, as a war correspondent for the "Daily Chronicle" with the French Third Army in the Marne, Aisne, Argonne and Verdun areas of North-eastern France.
Scenes include: damage caused to Reims Cathedral by German bombardment; views of the Marne valley and vineyard near Epernay, and part of the battlefield east of Meux; views of Chateau Thierry, La Ferte sous Jouarre and Verdun; General Sarrail and officers with official correspondents on the heights of the Meuse, December 1914; French captive observation balloon in action near Verdun; French artillery battery, soldiers and trenches on the hills near Verdun; views east of Verdun looking toward the German lines; French sentry's shelter above the Meuse; views of the Aisne valley above Fismes; French countrywomen entering Dormans with foodstuffs for sale, and military staff quarters therein; damaged and destroyed villages in the Meuse, Marne and Champagne departments, including Sermaize-les-Bains, L'Epine, Villers-aux-Vents, Clermont-en-Argonne and a destroyed village 'near Revigny'; a large farm at Merval, south of the Aisne, occupied by French troops and looking towards Chemin-des-Dames and the Craonne plateau; soldier's huts, cavalry stables and a hospital converted from a railway shed behind the Aisne lines, both thatched for insulation; supply wagons of the Third Army passing through a village, and a military hospital in Jonchery. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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