A shell torn section of the Ypres-Roulers Railway line near Zonnebeke, in the Ypres sector. No ...

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Accession Number E00983
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original negative other
Maker Wilkins, George Hubert
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres, Zonnebeke
Date made 15 October 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

A shell torn section of the Ypres-Roulers Railway line near Zonnebeke, in the Ypres sector. No attempt to repair this section of the line could possibly be made until September 1918. During the Third Battle of Ypres, it was violently bombarded by the enemy.