| Repository | Archives of the Archbishop of Westminster |
| Ref No | AAW/DOW/AP/6/11/3 |
| Title | Loose album pages of photographs of Cardinal Bourne's visit to the Western Front, France |
| Date | 1917 |
| Level | File |
| Description | 49 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] |
| Format | Photograph |
| Language | English |