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Two British Tommies have an impromptu game of nap among the ruins of a shattered town

Two British Tommies have an impromptu game of nap among the ruins of a shattered town

British soldiers playing cards in a ruined town near Rheims, in France, during World War I. The devastation caused by the fighting on the front line, yet also conveys the attitude that the British government were keen to promote at home, that life must go on. Two British soldiers are pictured casually playing cards in a waste ground that was once a town. They are surrounded by broken furniture and…

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Contributors

  • Thomas Keith, b. 1879 Aitken

Subject

  • Card games (physical activities)
  • French
  • Ruins
  • Soldiers
  • Towns
  • War damage
  • Ruins
  • Frenchcore

Type of item

  • Monograph
  • Monograph
  • Photograph

Contributors

  • Thomas Keith, b. 1879 Aitken

Subject

  • Card games (physical activities)
  • French
  • Ruins
  • Soldiers
  • Towns
  • War damage
  • Ruins
  • Frenchcore

Type of item

  • Monograph
  • Monograph
  • Photograph

Providing institution

  • National Library of Scotland

Aggregator

  • The European Library

Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)

  • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
  • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Rights

  • Available under Creative Commons license; Attribution, Non-commercial, ShareAlike

Issue date

  • 2005
  • 1914 - 1920
  • 1914/1920
  • 2005

Places

  • Europe, France, Champagne-Ardenne, Marne, Rheims (inhabited place)

Identifier

  • 74549148

Extent

  • 1 online resource

Is part of

  • http://data.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Collection/a1219

Year

  • 2005

Providing country

  • United Kingdom

Collection name

  • 9200316_Ag_EU_TEL_a11219_Scotland

First time published on Europeana

  • 2014-04-06T13:22:47.334Z

Last time updated from providing institution

  • 2016-05-31T08:45:47.745Z
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