A Russian advance across a pontoon bridge is stopped by an artillery bombardment. A postcard from a painting by K. Flechine, a student of the State School of Applied Arts, Hamburg.
K. FlechineReverse:Deutsche Kriegsausstellung Hamburgzugunsten des Hamburgischen Landesvereins vom Roten Kreuz.Kriegsbilder, gezeichnet von Schulkindern in der Staatlichen Kunstgewerbeschule, Hamburg.Hamburger Opfertag 1916 für Heer und MarineHartung & Co., HamburgGerman war exhibition HamburgFor the benefit of the Hamburg National Association of the Red Cross.Images of war, drawn by school children in the State School of Applied Arts, Hamburg.Hamburger victims day, 1916, for the Army and NavyHartung & Co., Hamburg
"It has been another hard-working night. Some of the wounds have been dreadful to look at. Several men were dead on arrival; seven died during the night. . . .An adjutant from our divisional staff came in the evening. He affirmed that the Austrians were retreating fast before our advancing troops. . . .In the midst of our elation at the success of our fighting-men, there came a flash of bad news from England. Lord Kitchener, the great English General, had died: drowned off the northern coast of Scotland when the cruiser on which he was sailing was torpedoed."
Florence Farmborough, an English nurse serving with the Russian Red Cross, writing on June 8, 1916 (May 26 Old Style) as Russia's Brusilov Offensive continued to collapse the Austro-Hungarian front. Herbert Lord Kitchener, formerly the United Kingdom's Secretary of State for War, was on a mission to Russia when his ship struck a mine on June 5.
Nurse at the Russian Front, a Diary 1914-18 by Florence Farmborough, pp. 191-192, copyright © 1974 by Florence Farmborough, publisher: Constable and Company Limited, publication date: 1974
1916-06-08, 1916, June, Brusilov, Brusilov Offensive, Kitchener, Lord Kitchener
