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27.X17 [Bailleul] July 7, 1918

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Oblique angle photo. Covers area equivalent to square X17 and 18 on the corresponding WWI map sheet 27. Negative roll and photo number 4B 2007. Annotations on recto: North arrow pointing to lower-left; map grid references: "X.18.a.80.45." and "X.17.b.71.25." labelled in white with arrows pointing to their exact locations. "28. Bailleul - in Boche hands. Seen from the French front line (their trenches in foreground) on our left. July 7, 1918." written in ink on paper label affixed to top edge of photo. Annotations on verso: "28. BAILLEUL, looking form front line of the French on our left. July 7, 1918. in Boche hands." written in pencil. WWI Aerial Photograph Collection: Box 4, Envelope 28.

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Title
27.X17 [Bailleul] July 7, 1918: France
Creator
Subject
Aerial reconnaissance, World War, 1914-1918--Aerial photographs, Europe--Aerial photographs, Aerial reconnaissance, World War, 1914-1918--Aerial photographs, Europe--Aerial photographs--France--World War, 1914-1918
Description
Oblique angle photo. Covers area equivalent to square X17 and 18 on the corresponding WWI map sheet 27. Negative roll and photo number 4B 2007. Annotations on recto: North arrow pointing to lower-left; map grid references: "X.18.a.80.45." and "X.17.b.71.25." labelled in white with arrows pointing to their exact locations. "28. Bailleul - in Boche hands. Seen from the French front line (their trenches in foreground) on our left. July 7, 1918." written in ink on paper label affixed to top edge of photo. Annotations on verso: "28. BAILLEUL, looking form front line of the French on our left. July 7, 1918. in Boche hands." written in pencil. WWI Aerial Photograph Collection: Box 4, Envelope 28.
Publisher
Contributor
Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps
Date
1918-07-07
Type
StillImage, Aerial views
Format
remote-sensing image, image/tif, scale varies
Identifier
macrepo:4680, local: WW1AIR00434
Source
Language
eng
Relation
Coverage
France, Europe--France--Bailleul, World War, 1914-1918
Rights
Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.

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