Picture No | 10934243 |
Date | 1917 |
Description | British soldiers bathing in flooded shell hole by Matania |
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The only advantage of the wet weather on the Western Front - a novel swimming bath used by British soldiers to bathe in. A scene captured at the front by The Sphere special artist, Fortunino Matania, who was on one of his several visits to the Front at the time.
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Source | Illustration by Fortunino Matania in The Sphere, 15 September 1917 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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