Lieutenant Jackson from the Signal Corps took this photograph, numbered 111-SC-28212, on October 15, 1918. The image shows Sir Douglas Haig, the British Field Marshal and Commander of the British Forces in France, along with Colonel Robert Bacon, the Ambassador to France, visiting the battlefields in the St. Quentin-Cambrai districts. The location is the St. Quentin Canal south of Bellicourt, Aisne, France. The photograph was later passed by the American Expeditionary Forces () censor, although the exact date of issuance is unspecified.

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