Lille Gallery

British trooper meets French woman on the road to Lille, WW1

A poignant scene captured by the Sphere magazine's special artist, Fortunino Matania showing a British trooper riding through a devastated French landscape and stopping to speak to a French woman and her child. According to the caption, the woman explains that her home has gone and her husband had been killed at Verdun. Date: 1919

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

September 2019

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Authorities attending the defile of the troops - Lille

Authorities attending the defile of the troops - Parade at Lille, France - October, 1918. The unmistakable chin of Liberator Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood can be seen (left of centre). Birdwood was a First World War British general who is best known as the commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915. Date: 1918

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection