A German Fokker Eindecker flying over the front in the Meuse/Verdun sector.

No. 104. Westlichen Kriegschauplatz: Schwere Niederlage der Franzosen auif den Maashöhen bei Combres.



Western theater of war: Heavy French defeat on the heights of the Meuse at Combres.

Serie 63/4



Towns include: Les Éparges, St. Remy, and Combres.



Reverse:

Kriegshilfe München N.-W. 11.

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Sammel. u. Nachschlagewerk des Völkerkrieges



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Saturday, April 15, 1916

"April 13th.—This is the first day in two months without a rumour of impending action somewhere on the front. To occupy its typists Division circulated a leg-pull on fly-catching, after Heath Robinson: he was a caricaturist whose burlesques of wartime mechanical contrivances and proposals were sometimes grimly to the point.

April 15th.—A route-march—German fliers have dropped notes saying they will be in Béthune on the 22nd. Their visits are few, but well timed; our fliers are much more over their territory."

Quotation Context

Entries from the writings — diaries, letters, and memoirs — of Captain J.C. Dunn, Medical Officer of the Second Battalion His Majesty's Twenty-Third Foot, The Royal Welch Fusiliers and dozens of his comrades. The commentary on Heath Robinson was clearly added at a later date.

Source

The War the Infantry Knew 1914-1919 by Captain J.C. Dunn, page 194, copyright © The Royal Welch Fusiliers 1987, publisher: Abacus (Little, Brown and Company, UK), publication date: 1994

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1916-04-15, 1916, April, plane, airplane