Canadian mounted artillery on the Arras to Cambrai Road, France - photo [All in a Lifetime illustrated autobiography chapter Page 66]
PublicPart of the Archie Wills illustrated autobiography. Image of horses, mounted soldiers, and military carriages on the road from Arras to Cambrai. Wills writes a description of this image in a typed caption at the bottom of the page "The Canadian Corps experienced some of its most vicious fighting in September, 1918, and the Arras-Cambrai Road was the scene of much of it. Picture at left, top, shows some of my battery, 58th., moving forward on Sept.2nd. during the capture of of the "impregnable" Hindenburg Line. The road was strewn with bodies of men and horses, trees and broken vehicles and there was a heavy dust in the air..."
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- 1 photograph ; 6 x 8 cm
- 50.17596, 3.23472
- World War One Photographs and Journals
- AR394_01_05_066_001
- Archival Finding Aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/archie-h-wills-fonds
- July 4, 2007
- Original metadata listed the following as contributors: Christopher Rickinson, Alyssum Nielsen, and Chris Petter. Migration metadata by KD. Migration metadata by KD.
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