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(63) X.25029 - Flooded station at Valenciennes
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Allies > Canadian and Newfoundland > (63) X.25029 - Flooded station at Valenciennes |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549244 |
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| Description | Station destroyed by the Germans, Valenciennes, France, 1918. The station at Valenciennes after it had been destroyed by the retreating German army. The tracks are flooded and covered with rubble and the main station building has buckled. It appears to have been a typical late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century station building constructed with a lot of glass and iron. The Canadian Corps captured Valenciennes on November 2, 1918 as part of the Cambrai offensive, a final push which ended in Mons just before the Armistice. [Original reads: 'The flooded station at Valenciennes; the enemy fired mines and destroyed the station when they found they could not hold the town against the Canadians.'] |
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| Description | Photographs from the Haig series that are connected with Canadian troops and the Newfoundland Regiment of the British Army. |
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| Description | Photographs of various nationalities allied to the British. |
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| Description | Black-and-white photographs mainly of the Western Front during the First World War. Official British war photographers took many of them for propaganda purposes. Unless otherwise stated, titles are the photographs' original captions. From the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928). The Haig Papers also contain Douglas Haig’s diaries. |
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| Shelfmark | Acc.3155 |
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