French Front messenger-pigeon service 1917
Special mobil messenger-pigeon service lofts built on a motor-vehicle chassis were used in the Western Front during World War One. Also messenger-pigeons were found to be very useful on the Vosges Front, for despatch carrying between posts and station in rear of the trenches among the wooded hills
Picture No
11066081
Media ID
46116126
Size
4030px x 5858px
(3.9MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by French Official Photograph in The Illustrated War News', 19 September 1917, part 67, page 33
Date
1917
