First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Postcard of ruined Basilica, Albert

  • Back to results
  • Previous
  • Next
  • Zoom in
  • Zoom out
  • 76.2%
  • Pan left
  • Pan right
  • Pan up
  • Pan down
  • Maximum resolution
  • Fit in window
  • Fit to width
  • Rotate left
  • Rotate right

To view other similar items in the archive click on the hyper-linked words below.

SubjectUnknown
TitlePostcard of ruined Basilica, Albert
NotesFrom a series of French postcards showing ruined towns. Captioned: '111. Albert (Somme) - Basilique, vue ouest - West view of the Basilic'. Taken after the recapute of the town in August 1918: the tower of the Basilica, with the famous 'hanging Virgin', was demolished in April 1918.

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 DateAugust - December 1918
Creation placeAlbert
File typeImage
Item sourcePostcard
Item mediumCard
ContentPostcard
CataloguerRichard Marshall
FilenameGWA_2486_ricealbert3.jpg
CopyrightThe Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
Digital repositoryThe Great War Archive, University of Oxford
Contributor NameStuart Lee
Contributed on the behalf ofP Vainker
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/4092