The Chalk Pit, Loos, France, World War I mb-copyright Lee Snider/Photo Images/CORBIS View of a glass works

View of a glass works furnace in operation with glassworkers shaping and blowing molten glass

To the left as viewed is a blue crown cushion with gold trim and tassels

Both are scruffily dressed and are using walking sticks

'Shield Presented to the Prince and Princess of Prussia'

The Chalk Pit, Loos, France, World War I mb-copyright Lee Snider/Photo Images/CORBIS View of a glass worksThe Chalk Pit, Loos, France, World War I, 1914 1918. This was the scene of heavy fighting during the Battle of Loos in 1915. Amongst the soldiers to lose their lives at the Chalk Pit was John Kipling, the son of the author Rudyard Kipling. Stereoscopic card detail.