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Two British Tommies have an impromptu game of nap among the ruins of a shattered town
Two British Tommies have an impromptu game of nap among the ruins of a shattered town
British soldiers playing cards in a ruined town near Rheims, in France, during World War I. The devastation caused by the fighting on the front line, yet also conveys the attitude that the British government were keen to promote at home, that life must go on. Two British soldiers are pictured casually playing cards in a waste ground that was once a town. They are surrounded by broken furniture and…
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Contributors
- Thomas Keith, b. 1879 Aitken
Subject
- Card games (physical activities)
- French
- Ruins
- Soldiers
- Towns
- War damage
- Ruins
- Frenchcore
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Contributors
- Thomas Keith, b. 1879 Aitken
Subject
- Card games (physical activities)
- French
- Ruins
- Soldiers
- Towns
- War damage
- Ruins
- Frenchcore
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Providing institution
Aggregator
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- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Rights
- Available under Creative Commons license; Attribution, Non-commercial, ShareAlike
Issue date
- 2005
- 1914 - 1920
- 1914/1920
- 2005
Places
- Europe, France, Champagne-Ardenne, Marne, Rheims (inhabited place)
Identifier
- 74549148
Extent
- 1 online resource
Is part of
- http://data.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Collection/a1219
Year
- 2005
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-04-06T13:22:47.334Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-05-31T08:45:47.745Z