Chateau Near Ypres
Watercolour and pencil painting by Douglas Champion-Jones.
CONTRIBUTOR
Royal Engineers Museum
Library & Archive
DATE
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LANGUAGE
eng
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INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
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