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A French husband and father sends his love with his original watercolor souvenir of Alsace, July 18, 1915. |
Souvenir D'Alsace
1915 18 Juillet
apporte à mes deux chéris bien amies
Mes plus tendres baisers
et mon coeur
Souvenir of Alsace
July 18 1915
brings to my two most cherished friends
my most tender kisses
and my heart.
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Chere petite fleurs d'alsace apporte à mes deux chéris bien amies mes baisers les plus tendre et les plus sacré
Conna . . . pere qui vous aime
Dear little flowers of Alsace bring to my two most cherished friends my most tender and most sacred kisses
Conna. . . father who loves you |
hand drawn, trench art, 1915, Souvenir d`Alsace, watercolor, postcard, 1915-07-18, July |
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In July 1915, British and German forces fought three engagements in Hooge, a village near Ypres with a destroyed chateau held by the Germans, and its stables held by the British. The British set off a mine to open an attack on July 19 opening a crater 120 feet across. Map from Military Operations France and Belgium, 1915, Vol. II, by Brigadier-General J.E. Edmonds and Captain G.C. Wynne. Map by Major A.F. Becke R.A. (Retired) Hon. M.A. (Oxon.) |
Hooge
19th July 1915 |
1915-07-22, 1915-07-19, 1915, July, Military Operations, Military Operations 1915 Vol. II, Edmonds, Battle of Hooge, Hooge, J.E. Edmonds, Edmonds |
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Turkish Interior Minister Talaat Pasha from 'Four Years Beneath the Crescent' by Rafael De Nogales. |
The Grand Vizier Talaat Pasha |
Four Years Beneath the Crescent, Beneath the Crescent, Rafael De Nogales, De Nogales, de Nogales, Nogales, Talaat Pasha, Talaat |
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A pencil sketch of a barn from Eberhard, an Austrian soldier in Gleisdorf, July 20, 1915, to 'L. Frl. Olga!' — liebe Fräulein Olga, dear Miss Olga. In the left foreground is a field kitchen, labeled 'Küche'. It is addressed to 'Sehrgeehrtes Fräulein Olga Pichler' — Dear Miss Olga Pichler, in Graz, and was postmarked on the 21st. Gleisdorf is about 170 km south of Vienna, and 28 km east of Graz. |
L. Frl. Olga!
Küche
Dear Miss Olga
kitchen |
hand drawn, pencil sketch, drawing, trench art, Gleisdorf, 1915, 1915-07-20, July, Eberhard |
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The headstone of Private L.D. Sheridan, of the Black Watch, who died July 23, 1915. He is buried in Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery in Fleurbaix, Pas-de-Calais, France. |
1353 Private
L.D. Sheridan
The Black Watch
23rd July 1915 |
1915-07-23, L.D. Sheridan, Sheridan, Black Watch, The Black Watch, 1915, July, Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery, Trou Aid Post Cemetery, Trou Aid Post |