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Crop off the persons from top part of image

I used this image for Remembrance Day.



Thank you.

"lying still on the ground in the row of the poppie,you see the man/youth in the cross that lay in the field to cross the trench to get the medic",still life .

Photo caption from AWM: "Looking towards Hamel along the communication trench (CT) running from the village to Pear Trench, over the fiercely contested ground won from the enemy in the Australian attack of 4 July 1918. The bodies of two dead German machine gunners bayoneted during the fighting lie on the ground, while the village is being shelled by the enemy. The Germans were caught behind the barrage in the CT and in almost every bay a dead body was found."

very sad scene

In the background is the Cornelius Vanderbilt II House, occupying the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, which was demolished in 1927 to make way for the Bergdorf Goodman department store. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Vanderbilt_II_House www.nyc-architecture.com/GON/GON058.htm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergdorf_Goodman

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"John Travers Cornwell age 16 on British cruiser "Chester" fighting a 6 inch gun single handed in Battle of Jutland" S. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cornwell "John Travers Cornwell VC (8 January 1900 – 2 June 1916), commonly known as Jack Cornwell or as Boy Cornwell, is remembered for his gallantry at the Battle of Jutland."

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