Oblique aerial photograph of the village of Bellicourt, France, showing trenches and shell ...

Accession Number P10885.005
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made France: Picardie, Aisne, Bellicourt, France: Picardie, Somme, Bapaume Cambrai Area, Bullecourt
Date made November 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Oblique aerial photograph of the village of Bellicourt, France, showing trenches and shell damaged buildings.
An image from the collection of 1010 Sergeant (Sgt) George Edgar Watkins DCM. Sgt Watkins, a painter from Blackburn, Victoria, enlisted on 10 February 1916. He served with the 39th Battalion throughout the war, as a Battalion scout in France and Belgium.