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Graves of airmen near Hesdin, 14 July 1918

Photograph, World War One, Air Operations (1914-1918), 1918.

Several of the graves have been marked with propellers as temporary headstones. After the war such markers would be replaced by standard Imperial War Graves Commission headstones. During the war, the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force lost 9,378 men.

One of 106 official photographs, 1916-1918.

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 1977-12-23-40

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum, Out of Copyright

Location

National Army Museum, Study collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1977-12-23-40