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Description: | Photographs of trophies collected by Beckles-Wilson at the ‘Visitor’s Chateau’ at Hesdin in 1917 and views of the exhibition (interior and exterior) which he set up in Cairo after collecting in Palestine during 1918. This includes shots of: the white flag of surrender, Jerusalem presented by Brig Gen C. F. Watson, the oak table on which the Commander-in-Chief, Field Marshal Haig, worked out plans for the Battle of the Somme at Beauquesne, German wireless records, the original hat and bayonet placed by a dying Australian soldier on Pozieres Ridge, August 5th 1916, General Pasha's Headquarters flag, Bethlehem, German flags, gas masks and alarms, a revolver target used by officers of German Headquarters Nazareth, hand painted with officers names against scores, German searchlights, German armour, German wireless and compasses. | 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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