Accession Num: 1997.002.4
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Document Date: 1916-- - --
Donors: Jean Takkinen (Estate of Ed Vipond)
Creators: D.A. Longuet
Keywords: 1910s, postcard, and World War I
Locations: Souchez (Pad-de-Calais)
Physical Description:
1 b/w postcard (13.8 cm x 8.9 cm)
Notes:
Postcard of ruined village of Souchez, Pas-de-Calais, France, after its destruction by the Germans during World War I. Photo by D.A. Longuet, Paris; postcard by Charles Ledieu, Arras. Inscription on rear from Fred Vipond of Nakusp, who fought here with the Canadian Corps: 'Fritz once held this town, but the French drove him out, across the swamp, onto Vimy Ridge. Their[sic] was some desperate fighting on the Ridge as the bones which are left testify. every place that we dug a piece of trench at a dugout, we unearthed some. Also, the ground was covered with rifels[sic], equitment[sic], ammunition etc. F.V.'