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| Picture No | 10796718 |
| Date | 1917 |
| Description | French church bell used as gas warning alarm, 1917, WW1 |
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The church bell of a destroyed village church in the Upper Marne, France, in use by the French for warning the neighbourhood, and the trenches, of impending poison gas attacks in 1917.
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| Source | French official photograph in The Illustrated War News, 20th June 1917, page 30. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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