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Auction: 340 - The Numismatic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 652

World War I. Gommecourt Wood from the trenches. May 14, 1918. Watercolor by J.E. Tindall (unsigned). Looking out at war-ravaged, denuded woods. Matted with typed narrative below: "GOMMECOURT WOOD Sector. Owing to the continual shelling by the enemy of our approach roads we found difficulty in getting up to the line daily, so leaving my horselines at Henu I moved into Gommecourt Wood trenches. GOMMECOURT WOOD, from out trench home."

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