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Picture No 11066081
Date 1917
Description French Front messenger-pigeon service 1917
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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.
Source Photograph by French Official Photograph in 'The Illustrated War News', 19 September 1917, part 67, page 33
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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