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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