Entrenched German soldiers behind sniper plates at Slota Gora, September 26, 1916. Slota (or Zlota) Gora was in Polish Russia, west of a line running from Warsaw to Cracow. An original watercolor (over pencil) by O. Oettel, 12th company of Landwehr, IR 32 in the field. A sketch in pencil and red crayon is on the reverse.
Slota Gora26.9.16O.Oettel 12L.32.I. FeldeZlota GoraSeptember 26, 1916O. Oettel, 12th Landwehr 32nd RegimentIn the Field
"Put that bloody cigarette out."
Last words of H.H. Munro, the author Saki, killed November 14, 1916 in the attack begun the previous day, one of the last in the Battle of the Somme, against the villages of Beaumont Hamel, Beaucourt, and St. Pierre Divion on the Ancre River.
The Lost Voices of World War I, An International Anthology of Writers, Poets and Playwrights by Tim Cross, page 13, copyright © 1989 by The University of Iowa, publisher: University of Iowa Press, publication date: 1989
1916-11-14, 1916, November, Beaumont-Hamel, sniper
