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Armentieres, 1914-1915

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Houplines breastworks, Armentieres, 1914.

A soldier (sentry?) sits in a recess in the trench wall, his rifle at the ready.

After a shell had landed, Houplines, Armentieres, 1914.

A couple of soldiers stand on a pile of bricks and rubble, surveying the ruins of a terraced building. Behind them, the other buildings in the terrace appear to be untouched.

Refugees leaving Houplines, Armentieres, 1914.

An old man and a young woman hurry past, carrying a few possessions in cloth covered bundles.

Corporal Robert Leslie Smith sniping at Germans only 50 yards away. Chapelle, D'Armentieres, January 1915.

Corporal Smith aims his rifle through a hole in the breastworks.

Inside the ruined shell of a church. (Armentieres?).

Pillars and some of the arches are all that remain of the church walls; there is no roof. Everything else is a tangled heap of rubble.

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