2-710-947 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'A Belgian Outpost', (1919). Scene from the First World War: 'The aftermath of the Battle of Haelen [1914]. Many of the villages and towns were reduced to a heap of smoking ruins, cottages and homes being blown to pieces by the enemy's [Germany's] artillery.' From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. I, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]