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Description: | Trench Warfare, General Conditions: The Virgin hanging from the Church of Notre Dame de Brebieres in Albert. The soldiers' legend said that when the Virgin, which had been hit by German fire fell, the war would end. Engineers made the statue secure but it finally fell in 1918.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Morale Destruction Battle of the Somme 1916 Western Front 1914-1918 Allied Offensive Religion Architecture Western Front First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Brooks Ernest (Lt) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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