Ruins of Bethune, France, World War I Finish:10-pack ' Francis Rawdon Cheseney was

' Francis Rawdon Cheseney was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1834

and wears ecclesiastical dress Printed below the image: 'MAULL & POLYBLANK

The yard is lined with onlookers

including a man and boy herding cattle

Ruins of Bethune, France, World War I Finish:10-pack ' Francis Rawdon Cheseney wasRuins of Bethune, France, World War I, c1915 c1918. Smouldering Bethune, ignited by German guns for the defeat at Festubert. The Battle of Festubert was part of the wider Artois Offensive carried out by the British and Empire armies in May 1915. It succeeded in making a small advance through the German lines of about 1 kilometre but cost 16,000 casualties. In April 1918, German artillery bombardment virtually destroyed the town of Bethune during the