#peronne

[gregdotorg]

Add motorcycles to the list of subjects I'd never associated with John Singer Sargent, but ig war can really change a man.

A List of Sargent Subjects I Had Not Known [greg.org, via nga]

[retrogeographie]

Peronne (Somme), le lycée.

[postcard-from-the-past]

View of Péronne, Picardy region of France

French vintage postcard

[detournementsmineurs]

Solange Certain, Denise Péronne, Bourvil et Jean Yonnel dans "Un Drôle de Paroissien" de Jean-Pierre Mocky (1963), mars 2023.

[thisdayinwwi]

Mar 24 1917 A French official photographer took this pictures of a British soldier outside ruins of the Town Hall at Peronne, 24 March 1917. Note the German notice board on the building, now in the IWM collections.

March 24 1917-03-24

IWM Q 78873, IWM Q 78871

[fidjiefidjie]

Un peu de lecture... 🤗 📖

Gif d'après affiche de la ville de Péronne

[mostly-history]

A British Mark V tank passes by a dead horse in the road (Peronne, France, 1918).

[poor-bloody-infantry]

© IWM (Q 11269) A British soldier holds a magpie at the entrance to a captured German machine-gun position, Peronne, 3 September 1918.