The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The Basilica of Notre Dame de Brebieres, showing the leaning statue of the Virgin, later destroyed by shellfire. The peasants in this area held the superstition that war would end when the Madonna fell. It collapsed, however, at the time of the operations in the spring of 1918. This image is a colour Paget Plate. The same image is available in black and white and is held at E02068.
The Basilica of Notre Dame de Brebieres showing the leaning statue of the Virgin, later destroyed by shellfire. The peasants in this area held the superstition that war would end when the Madonna fell
The Basilica of Notre Dame de Brebieres showing the leaning statue of the Virgin, later destroyed by shellfire. The peasants in this area held the superstition that war would end when the Madonna fell
The ruins of the Basilica of Notre Dame de Brebieres at Albert. The scene of the leaning Virgin, which was supposed by the French to foretell the end of the war if it fell. It collapsed during opera
View of the shell damaged Basilica of Notre Dame de Brebieres at Albert. This is an original Paget Plate negative. The same image is available in colour and is held at P03631.188.
Albert, France. c. 1916. The war damaged spire of the Basilica of Notre Dame de Brebieres at Albert topped by a statue of the leaning Madonna. (Donor British Official Photograph C403)
View of the church tower of the Basilica of Notre Dame de Brebieres at Albert showing the leaning Madonna, subsequently destroyed during the German advance in April 1918.
The shell damaged tower of the Basilica of Notre Dame de Brebieres, topped by the 'Leaning Madonna'. The local people believed that when the Madonna fell, the war would end. In their great spring of
