German troops stopping for midday rations on the way to Brussels, First World War mb-code 42-56231896 including a couple on horseback

including a couple on horseback passing a man with a donkey and a group round a barrow with a street seller approaching

His gaze is direct and his expression rather self-satisfied

showing Time expiring

Henry Birkin in a Bentley

The lower figures are portraits of a Gascon knight and the author paying his respects to the knight who had sent for him to accompany him to England

German troops stopping for midday rations on the way to Brussels, First World War mb-code 42-56231896 including a couple on horsebackGerman troops stopping for midday rations on the way to Brussels, First World War, 1914. Illustration from The Great War by HW Wilson, Vol I, (London, 1914).