Battle of the Menin Road. Scene on a road over newly captured ground
photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1999-11-70-21
Description
Battle of the Menin Road, 3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), 20 September 1917 Official photograph, 1917 The shattered wasteland of the Western Front is visible in this photograph of the land around the Menin Ridge in Flanders. By 1917 the entire region had been devastated by shell fire. A view of the newly captured ground taken from the main road to Zonnebeke during the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge. Shells can be seen bursting in the distance. From an album of 76 official photographs, 1916-1917.
Events
Ypres, 3rd Battle of (Passchendaele), 1917 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)
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