Path to dugout
Category
Photographs
Date
Jun 1918
Materials
Photographic card
Measurements
142 x 90 mm
Place of origin
Veneto
Collection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 610244.15
Summary
Path leading to dugout covered in sandbags; line of broken tree stumps (once a hedge?) on right. Official photographs of the battle between the Astico and Piave rivers, printed in postcard format. Edith Teresa Hulton (1890-1972), later Lady Berwick, worked as a Red Cross volunteer in a variety of locations in north-east Italy in the Italian war zone during World War I. She married Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick of Attingham (1877-1947) on 30th June 1919 in Venice, Italy.
Provenance
8th Lady Berwick collection; bequeathed to the National Trust by Edith Teresa Hulton, Lady Berwick (1890-1972).
Marks and inscriptions
On bottom right of photograph: F 1332 Printed on back: Item reproduced as postcard. (top left) 'SEZIONE FOTOCINEMATGRAFICA DEL P ESERCITO ITALIANO' (Photographic section of the Italian army) Printed bottom left 'Riproduzione vietata' (reproduction prohibited)