2-716-877 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Bombed bridge and derailed train, northern France, First World War, 1914, (c1920). 'The Fate of a Red Cross Train during the Battle of the Marne: Scene of the disaster near Lizy'. '...a Red Cross train fell into the River Ourcq through the blowing up of the bridge, the remains of which are shown in the photograph...Forty wounded soldiers were drowned.' From "The Great World War - A History" Volume I, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]