2-710-787 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'French Troops Crossing a River', (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: '...the great Allied offensive was in country intersected by streams, rivers, and numerous canals. The crossing was effected by throwing the pontoons here shown across them. For minor operations these consisted of plank sections borne by light metal drums...' From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. VII, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]