SCENES ON THE YSER CANAL [Main]

Parties of the Irish Guards with Royal Engineers of either 55th Company or 76th Company RE carry coils of wire past defences and over the Yser Canal by a small footbridge. They are followed by Grenadier Guards and by men of the RAMC returning with wounded. On another part of the canal, possibly Bois de Crapouillots, a main road bridge is under construction. There is general wreckage, including a l…