Images Dated 2010 May

Temple of Winds on Blackdown / Black Down hill

Temple of Winds on Blackdown / Black Down hill - 280 m / 919 feet high - end of May - early morning. South Downs National Park - Sussex - UK

© Andrey Zvoznikov / ardea.com

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Neuve Chapelle - WWI

Neuve Chapelle. Including a separate hand-written description as follows - Here enemy made a counter-attack (under cover of a mist) in mass formation. Were driven back by our men in trenches on left of road and practically annihilated by our machine (guns) in houses on right. Present line of Germans (May 16) under tall trees in middle distance.Probably taken from the German perspective, looking north-east, with the ruined Pietre Mill in the left foreground and with the British lines in the (rather truncated) distance. Captain Edward Handley-Read, Rba - Machine Gun Corps (1869-1935)

© David Cohen Fine Art/Mary Evans Picture Library