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Title: Birds and the war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Gladstone, Hugh S
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 Homing pigeons
Publisher: (London, England) : Skeffington & Son
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Plate 14.—Swalluwo c,u.>.i.iy perched on war-telegraph wires (p-,)18). II2J
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Birds on the Western Front thunder of the guns. She certainly paid noheed to the movements of the troops as theypassed to and fro, close to the nest, busy withtheir days work (Land and Water, 14.ix.16).An observer in the battle-zone in the valleyof the Ancre writes on June ist, 1918 : Whether in the front line, or in the stillnoisier belt just in front of the field-guns,the heavier the fire the more exultant theflow of song ; and three nights ago, when westood-to during a barrage in gas-masks in awood reeking with mustard gas, the Night-ingales still sang undismayed in the branchesoverhead (Manchester Guardian, io.vi.i8).In May 1917 a Nightingale, in Ossus Wood,our most advanced position near the St.Quentin Canal, sang particularly well whenthe machine-guns fired, as if in answer tothem (Ihis, 1919, p. 68). About June 1917,when preparations were on foot for the great* third battle of Ypres, a party of troopshalted in a wood, midway between Ypres—Elverdrighe—Poperinghe, for the usu

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