Photograph - Aerial View, Picardie, France, World War I, circa 1918, Aerial photographs of France, including the (labelled) villages of Dernancourt and Ville-sur-Ancre, and reference points 'A.3 AW 0.9 16-5-18-12' and 'J 6b 8513'. It is likely to have been taken in World War I, possibly in 1918, during aerial reconnaissance of battlefields. A trench is visible below Ville-sur-Ancre. In May 1918 the 6th Brigade captured Ville-sur-Ancre from the Germans.
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Photograph, Aerial View, Picardie, France, World War I, circa 1918, Aerial photographs, labelled, villages, Dernancourt, Ville-sur-Ancre, reference points, A.3 AW 0.9 16-5-18-12, J 6b 8513, 1918, aerial reconnaissance, battlefields, trench, visible, 6th Brigade captured Ville-sur-Ancre, Germans
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