10.5287/BODLEIAN8T7J.1
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Letter describing how the photograph after an advance on the Somme (13th Royal Fusiliers) was taken
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
WdUzzgyu105594
1917-04-01/1917-12-31
2011-12-05 13:37:22.491854
2011
gwa-9499
Leaf
This letter is from the son of Horace Foakes to his family. It describes how a famous photograph of a group of soldiers (13th BN Royal Fusiliers) was taken after their advance on the Somme on the 7th July 1916.
The photograph has been contributed separately to the archive, along with Horace Foakes memoirs of how he won his military medal.