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| Picture No | 10825962 |
| Date | 1919 |
| Description | British trooper meets French woman on the road to Lille, WW1 |
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A poignant scene captured by the Sphere magazine's special artist, Fortunino Matania showing a British trooper riding through a devastated French landscape and stopping to speak to a French woman and her child. According to the caption, the woman explains that her home has gone and her husband had been killed at Verdun.
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| Source | Illustration by Fortunino Matania in The Sphere, 15 March 1919 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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