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MAs in history & photo preservation, photographer, historian of First World War photography. Find me hanging out at @lazygirlspod ✌🏼

Jul 23, 2018, 6 tweets

Thomas Keith Aitken was also out making photographs on 23 July 1918 - #thread πŸ‘‡πŸΌπŸ‘‡πŸΌπŸ‘‡πŸΌ

Battle of Tardenois. British (62nd Division) and French soldiers in action in Bois de Reims, Β© IWM (Q 11110) #warphotos #FWW

Battle of Tardenois. French troops and a soldier of the British 62nd Division escorting German prisoners who are bringing back British and French wounded. Bois du Reims, Β© IWM (Q 11099)

Battle of Tardenois. Stretcher-bearers of the 2/20th Battalion, London Regiment (Blackheath and Woolwich), 62nd Division taking back their wounded. Bois de Reims, Β© IWM (Q 11109)

Men of the 2nd/4th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 62nd Division, cleaning up a captured German trench at Bois de Reims during the battle of Tardenois, Β© IWM (Q 11111)

Battle of Tardenois. Soldier of the British 62nd Division and French wounded coming back, with German prisoners acting as stretcher bearers. Bois de Reims. Mutilated bodies of dead horses in the middle of the road. Β© IWM (Q 11493)

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