A direct hit from our Monitors off the Belgian coast wipes out a Hun defence battery, Meriakerke, Realistic Travels, 1914 - 1918

Title(s)

A direct hit from our Monitors off the Belgian coast wipes out a Hun defence battery, Meriakerke

Object type

• stereograph

Object number

RP-F-F06274

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘By Royal command to their Imperial majesties King George V and Queen Mary’
• number: ‘16’

Artist

• Realistic Travels (mentioned on object)

Place

Mariakerke

Dating

1914 - 1918

Material

• cardboard
• photographic support

Technique

gelatin silver print

Measurements

height c. 85 mm × width c. 170 mm

What

• firearms: cannon
• loss, damage, destruction of machinery

Acquisition

transferred 1994

Copyright

Public domain