A First War Reconnaissance Photograph Of Trenches Hold by the War Department

by the War Department

England and found work as a warehouseman in Canada prior to the First World War

Footnote: Arthur James Ernest Kirkpatrick was born on April 29

at the age of two years and one month)

A First War Reconnaissance Photograph Of Trenches Hold by the War DepartmentBlack and white, faded to a sepia toned look, on a thick photographic paper, semi gloss finish, illustrating a battle scarred landscape interlaced with multiple trenches and diverse structures, various notations in black, inscribed "Tramway Destroyed, Large Evacuation, Drain, Chalk Pit in H32d, Unfinished Trench, Noggin Trench, Entrance to Trench, M. G., M. G. Pits", with three "E" 's, along with a directional arrow in one corner and containing