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The Menin Road to Ypres, 1918

Photograph, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), 1918.

The Menin Road was the main route running east from the Belgian town of Ypres. The area adjacent to the road was devastated by German shellfire. By 1918 it was a desolate landscape marked with flooded shell-holes, shattered trees and the detritus of war.

One of 193 British and Allied official photographs.

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 2007-03-7-36

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum, Out of Copyright

Location

National Army Museum, Study collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2007-03-7-36