2-710-780 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'French Field-Service Kitchens Behind the Firing Line', (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: 'Next to ammunition, an army in the field requires to be fed, and the elaborate and amazingly perfect organisation of the commissariat department of the French Army is well illustrated in the photograph.' From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. IV, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]