MR. POILU

NOTES AND SKETCHES WITH
THE FIGHTING FRENCH

BY
HERBERT WARD

 

ILLUSTRATIONS

 
 A SENTRY

 
 BOMBS

 
 'A BLUE DEVIL'

 
 A POILU

 
 WINTER IN THE VOSGES

 
 A FRENCH INFANTRYMAN---1915

 
 A FRENCH SOLDIER

 
 LE GÉNÉRAL DE DIVISION

 
 A POSTE DE SECOURS

 
 A TYPICAL 'BLUE DEVIL'

 
 LETTERS FROM HOME

 
 '. . THE EXTREME MISERY OF THEIR SURROUNDINGS'

 
 THE EXPLOSION OF A BIG SHELL

 
 THE LINGEKOPF

 
 A PLANTON

 
 A CHASSEUR ALPIN

 
 A SNIPER

 
 ' . . . IN A TRENCH AT DAWN...'

 
 AN OPERATION, UNDERGROUND

 
 AN EXPLODING SHELL

 
 AN UNFINISHED SKETCH UNDER SHELL-FIRE

 
 A CHASSEUR ALPIN MULETEER

 
 AN 'ABRI'

 
 A CAGNA

 
 A SOLDIERS' CEMETERY IN THE FOREST---VOSGES

 
 SULZERN---MIDNIGHT: OCTOBER 1915

 
 ' . . WOODEN CROSSES IN THE TRENCHES TO MARK THE SPOT WHERE A MAN HAS FALLEN . . .'

 
 IN THE TRENCHES AT TÊTE DES FAUX ... FIFTEEN YARDS FROM THE ENEMY

 
 WATCHING THE MASCOT

 
 A SKETCH NEAR LUNEVILLE

 
 A FRENCH SOLDIER FROM THE JURA

 
 ' SNIPER'S CORNER'

 
 A TYPE OF FRENCH SOLDIER: A VETERAN

 
 A 'FANTASSIN' (INFANTRY)

 
 ' OUR WORK AT NIGHT . . . UNDER SHELL AND RIFLE FIRE

 
 UNDER SHELL-FIRE

 
 WOUNDED!

 
 AFTER AN EXPLOSION

 
 'NO MAN'S LAND'---WETTSTEIN: OCTOBER 1915

 
 WINTER

 
 THE TWO WHITE-CLAD FIGURES

 
 A FRENCH RÉSERVISTE

 
 A FRENCH SOLDIER TYPE

 
 RECONNOITRING, BEHIND A SNOW BANK

 
 MUD!

 
 THE GRAVE OF A FRENCH SOLDIER


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