#hesdin

[thisdayinwwi]

Dec 17 1917 Near Hesdin, war photographer David McLellan takes these photos of a motorcyclist of the Royal Engineers snowed up. On shot shows a motorcyclist of the Royal Engineers with a Christmas pudding on the snowed up Hesdin-Saint-Pol road.

Colourized by colourisationsbyhugh

IWM Q 8334, IWM Q 8338, IWM Q 8340

December 17 1917-12-17 

[griffes]

“Sur un petit îlot Des jardins de terre fine Respirent au fil des eaux...”

[poor-bloody-infantry]

© IWM (Q 8334) Motorcyclist of the Royal Engineers snowed up near Hesdin, 17 December 1917. Hesdin is to the North of Abbeville.

[woodsguy-p]

Green, Green, I love Green...

Hesdin’ Forest, Pas-de-Calais, France.

[thisdayinwwi]

Apr 2 1918 At the Army Service Corps (Mechanical Transport) tyre-pressing depot at Hesdin, David McLellan takes these photos of tyre (tires) being forced on to a wheel by hydraulic pressure.

April 2 1918-04-02

IWM Q 8672, IWM Q 8673,  IWM Q 8671

[griffes]

Shinrin Yoku  à Hesdin et sieste en bord de Ternoise...

[thisdayinwwi]

Dec 22 1917 IWM (Q 9831) “Christmas at the front; a soldier with two turkeys walking through the snow. Photograph taken at Hesdin" December 22 1917 by McLellan, David (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)

Production date: 1917-12-22

Coloured by Benjamin Thomas

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Dec 20 1917 IWM (Q 8355) “A soldier of the Machine Gun Corps in a sheepskin coat with two ducks for his Christmas dinner, near Hesdin" December 20 1917 by McLellan, David (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)

Production date: 1917-12-20