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Poilus preparing barbed wire for front line, Lempire, Meuse, France
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| Title | Poilus preparing barbed wire for front line, Lempire, Meuse, France |
| Date of Original | 1918? |
| Description | Soldiers working in open field preparing wire for battlefield front. |
| Ordering Information | Consult: http://library.ndsu.edu/ndsuarchives/duplication-services |
| General Subject | Military
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| Subject (LCTGM) | Barbed wire
Military personnel
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| Subject (LCSH) | World War, 1914-1918 - Equipment & supplies
World War, 1914-1918 - Battlefields
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| Location | Meuse (France)
France
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| Decade | 1910-1919
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| Item Number | 2030.8.4 |
| Format of Original | Gelatin silver prints
Stereographs
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| Dimensions of Original | 9 x 18 cm. |
| Publisher of Original | Keystone View Company
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| Transcription | "Barbed wire for front line, Lempire. These soldiers are merely a little detachment of workmen in one of those factories of battle which existed everywhere behind fighting lines. This countryside around Lempire seems peaceful enough in the sunshine but it is, in fact, on the very threshold of one of the pits of hell of the Western front--Verdun. Working hardly more than four miles southwest of the heard of the beleaguered city and the same distance north of Souilly, which during the battle of the Meuse-Argonne was the headquarters of the 1st American Army, these soldiers are weaving the strands of steel which later, under cover of darkness, will be carried up the Sacred Road and out through the trenches to guard the shell-torn approaches from No Man's Land. No trench was complete without its barricade of wire. Lashed to stout wooden stakes or iron rods two or three feet high, twisted and tangled in every direction, it held the attacking enemy, until the soldiers could rush to the defense. Its sharp barbs tore flesh and clothing, and in thousands of instances while soldiers were hurriedly forcing their way through bullets hung them lifeless or writhing in agony upon the wire. Coils of barbed wire, ready for use, are to be seen in the foreground. At the tables men are coiling smooth wire that was used to reinforce the posts on which barbed wire was strung. Beyond the workers a small engine is to be seen, one of thousands which squeaked and rumbled along narrow gauge tracks up to the very front lines, dragging trucks filled with supplies, with repair materials, with sheets of corrugated iron for huts or trenches" - Text off back of mount.
"V18872" - Printed on front and back of image. |
| Notes | Title printed on front of stereograph.
Photographer unknown. |
| Repository Institution | North Dakota State University Libraries, Institute for Regional Studies
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| Repository Collection | World War I Stereograph Collection 2030
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| Collection Finding Aid | Consult: http://hdl.handle.net/10365/1206 |
| Credit Line | Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo (2030.8.4) |
| Language | eng
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| Digital ID | rs001027 |
| Original Source | Photographic print |
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