Maj Gen Burstall- Dec. 1917

Major-General Burstall posed in chair in full uniform seated outside a house. P0375
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Major-General Burstall posed in chair in full uniform seated outside a house. P0375
…General Sir Arthur Currie watches his men, of the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders) who took Hill 70, march past to rest camp after being relieved in August 1917. Some children …
Street portrait of Lt Col C.E. Bent, C.M.G., D.S.O., 15th Canadian Inf. Bn., Col. J.G. Rattray, C.M.G., and Col. J.A. Gunn, C.M.G., D.S.O.in full uniform in front of steps. P0377
…Soldier with bare-legs at an observation post looking with binoculars. P0378 Highland regiments, including the 15th Battalion, 48th Highlanders, were entitled to wear their kilt in the trenches and in …
Soldiers relaxing on a bridge at Bn Headquarters at the front. The bridge crosses a ditch or trench. P0379
…Locality “C” from Kerselaer, bombarded crossroad in 1919. Scene shows the ground after the battle of Passchendaele and the ruined allied tank and plank boardwalk over mud. The infamous plank …
German Observation Post at position of 8th Bn HQ (22 April 1915), 2nd battle of Ypres. Photo taken April/May 1919. Photo shows ruined walls, water filled craters and debris.
…Aerial photograph showing the trenches looking east of Vimy, France on 23 August 1917. Photograph shows trenches and shell pocked terrain.
…Shelled ruins of buildings on a street corner somewhere in France.
…Ruins after shelling of the Chateau Bourlon in France (near Cambrai) in 1917.
…Battlefield photograph of fields and road at 2nd battle of Ypres, April/May 1917.
…Two happy go lucky Canadians back from trenches, November 1916. Walking along a muddy road.
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