Civilians and revolutionary soldiers watching an engagement from a railway embankment

University of Bristol – Historical Photographs of China reference number: WS01-054. This photograph is reproduced in Letters from Hankow - The Chinese Revolution of 1911 - The Eye Witness Account of Laura Beckingsale (Pomegranate Books, 2011), Fig. 14, and captioned: "This was taken on the first day of the battle when the Fleet destroyed a small village by shells.  Notice the small table on the embankment. It is very queer how they suspend hostilities when meal-times come round!".