WWI4"By Hindenburg's Orders, 'To be Held at all Costs': Passchendaele Ridge Stormed by Canadians"
"An Important Victory gained under great difficulties: the Canadans'splendid exploit on Passchendaele Ridge- Some firing into and bombing a 'Pill-box'"
Original gravure drawn for the Illustrated London News drawn by Richard Caton Woodville (1856-1927), Woodville was a famous military artist ad illustrator, rought up in St. Petersburg, Hhe lived in Paris before settling in Lonodn in 1875.He was a Special Artist for the Illustrated London News covering the Turkish War (1878), Egyptian War (1882), and events in Albania and the Balkans. Woodville's war drawings were accurate nad highly finished, if at times romanticised. From Material supplied by an eye-witness.Size of image = 50.5cm x 30.5cm
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