The Chalk Pit, Loos, France, World War I Size:Large: 7 x 5in 'A Christmas Tree for the

'A Christmas Tree for the young French Prince'

Argonaut' from the book Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des cephalopodes acetabuliferes vivants et fossiles

This painting forms plate 2 of 'The Thanatophidia of India: being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian peninsula

The Prince and Princess of Wales

Pope Pius IX created six new cardinals

The Chalk Pit, Loos, France, World War I Size:Large: 7 x 5in 'A Christmas Tree for theThe Chalk Pit, Loos, France, World War I, 1914 1918. This was the scene of heavy fighting during the Battle of Loos in 1915. Amongst the soldiers to lose their lives at the Chalk Pit was John Kipling, the son of the author Rudyard Kipling. Stereoscopic card detail.