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British enter Lille, George Grantham Bain Collection

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British enter Lille, George Grantham Bain Collection

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Photograph shows British soldiers of the 8th Battalion (Liverpool Regiment) with a French boy, entering Lille, France on October 18, 1918 during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016)
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Caption from similar image on the Imperial War Museum website: "Troops of the 8th Battalion, the King's (Liverpool Regiment, Liverpool Irish, 57th Division) entering Lille, 18 October 1918. Note a barefooted French boy with a rifle, clearly given to him by a smiling soldier on his right."
Photograph taken by David McLellan.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

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01/01/1918
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No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html

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