Strips of camouflage hung across a street to prevent enemy observation from balloons. Bonnay and ...

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Accession Number E02159
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Corbie Albert Area, Bonnay
Date made April 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

Strips of camouflage hung across a street to prevent enemy observation from balloons. Bonnay and other villages in the vicinity were heavily shelled, mostly with gas, on 24 April 1918, during the German attack on Villers-Bretonneux.