All Saints Day, Vitry en Artois

All Saints Day, Vitry en Artois

Photograph 1 is a senior officer laying a wreath in a cemetery with airmen and civilians watching. Captioned 'Nov 1st 1944, All Saints Day. Group/ Capt MacDonald O.C. 137 Wing T.A.F. 2 laying wreath on Allied Airmens graves in Cemetery, Vitroy [sic]'

Photograph 2 and 3 are a senior officer laying a wreath at a war memorial with civilians watching. Captioned: 'Group / Capt MacDonald, O.C. 137 Wing, T.A.F. 2. laying wreath on War Memorail [sic] 1914 1918, Vitroy [sic] en Artois.'

Photographs 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 are wreath laying at the war memorial.
Photograph 5 is a group of civilians at the cemetery.

Photograph 11 is a group of children at a different memorial.

1944-11-01

Eleven b/w photographs on two album pages

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