RepositoryArchives of the Archbishop of Westminster
Ref NoAAW/DOW/AP/6/11/3
TitleLoose album pages of photographs of Cardinal Bourne's visit to the Western Front, France
Date1917
LevelFile
Description49 B&W mounted photographs covering the following topics:

Archbishop [Cardinal] Francis Bourne conducting a service at a Catholic Club to the the rear of the British lines [undisclosed location].

Front line views of British howitzers being emplaced in newly captured ground.

Lewis gun defensive positions of the Seaforth Highlanders.

Seaforth Highlanders gas monitoring point.

Travelling Canteen #2 of the British Womens National Temperance Association.


Archbishop Bourne receiving salute from a parade of Dublin Fusiliers at Ervillers, France.

Scenes around a Y.M.C.A. centre based in a shell damaged building [Thiepval ?].

Archbishop Bourne arriving for an Irish Brigade service held in a barn.

War Department [W.D.] Steam Tractor S.803 in shell ravaged landscape.

British infantry from an undisclosed unit arriving at the rear in requisitioned and camouflaged London double-deck buses. Etc.

[No obvious copyright information- original cataloguing run D.2221-D.2250]
FormatPhotograph
LanguageEnglish

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