Photograph by Margaret Hall, [23 August 1918-19 August 1919]
7 cm x 13.2 cm
From Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country, typescript narrative by Margaret Hall
Photograph on page x; Sequence number 357c
Caption below photograph: " 'Death of an Yser Hero: Furnes, Belgium. June 16: Charles Cogghe, heroic sluice-keeper of the Yser is dead.-- When Rear Admiral Ronarch's French Naval division, overwhelmed by numbers, was forced back of the Yser, Cogghe, under heavy shell fire, opened the sluices at Nieuport, flooding the plain and barring the Calais road to the Germans. Only a few days ago, King Albert, when he came to dedicate the Dixmude Monumen, asked to shake hands with 'the glorious sluiceman' as Cogghe waas called in Flanders--"