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 : Sunset over the Sambre-Oise Canal, France


Sunset over the Sambre-Oise Canal, France

The poet and British soldier Lieutenant Wilfred Owen of the Manchester Regiment was killed here in 1918 while trying to cross the canal during action. Owen is burried in the Ors Cemetery with other members of the Manchester Regiment, a short distance from the canal

Picture No
10702901
Media ID
47564742
Size
4256px x 2832px (1.2MB)
Credit
westernfrontphotography.com/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Mike St Maur Sheil
Date
2010

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