Festubert [ASE label]
Photographic Image
Identifier:
2016.3.1.1-137
Description
Landscape with ruins of buildings and trees around the French town of Festubert in 1919, years after the heavy fighting of May 1915, when the 2nd and 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigades launched several frontal assaults, but were down by well-positioned German machine-guns. Although they did manage to make some small gains, the Canadians suffered 2,468 casualties in the largely unsuccessful attacks in the area,
