The unveiling ceremony of a memorial to Lord Kitchener, August 1916
Your country needs you: Kitchener’s memorial cross in 1916 … and now – interactive
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In the second of a new weekly series of interactive photographs to mark the first world war centenary, a memorial cross for Lord Kitchener is unveiled at St Botolph's church in 1916, after the British secretary of state for war was killed by a German mine. It is said to be the first memorial of the war in England
Photography then and now lets you leap through time by tapping or clicking on the image to reveal the modern view. You can drag or swipe to control the speed of the transformation
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