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Limbers refilled with shells for the Battle of the Somme in France during World War I

British Army at the Battle of Somme in France during World War I. Land mines explode in German trenches and smoke rises. British soldiers dump used up shell cases. A pile of cases. Shells taken out from wooden boxes. A chain of men passes on the shells. A man refills the limber with shells.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048357
British Worcesters fix wire cutters during the Battle of Somme in France, World War I

A battalion of British Worcesters during the Battle of Somme in France, during World War 1. Soldiers fix up wire cutters to their rifles to cut barbed wires. The Battalion marching in formation along dirt path, on the way to the front.

Date: 1916
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048363
British soldiers fire 9.45 inch trench mortar during the Battle of the Somme in France, World War I

British soldiers operate a 9.45 inch trench mortar, during the Battle of the Somme, during World War 1 in France. A mortar bomb (called a "flying pig") is loaded into the mortar. The soldiers move to a safe location in their dugout and fire the mortar.

Date: 1916
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048364
British artillery battery firing 18 pounders during the Battle of the Somme in France, World War I

British soldiers fire 18pdr guns from captured Germans trenches during the Battle of Somme, World War 1 in France. Field battery directing, point blank, direct fire, from behind sand bag mounds. Two horses killed while bringing up the field battery lie in a field.

Date: 1916
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048365
British troops attack German trenches during the Battle of the Somme in France, World War I

British soldiers during the Battle of Somme, World War I in France. German trenches bombarded on 1st July, 1916. Smoke rises. Soldiers of British Lancashire Fusiliers await instructions. Large group of British soldiers gathered and close-up views of the British soldiers, uniforms, and equipment being readied. Soldiers fix bayonets to their rifles and pass through communication trench to the first line. A huge mine blows up German trenches; view just after the explosion occurs (the Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt mine explosion). Royal Engineers arrive. A soldier looks through binoculars from behind sand mounds. British soldiers set up machine gun at the top of a trench parapet. Men at machine gun. Shrapnel bursts over German trench. British troops "go over the top" and launch an attack on German trenches under heavy enemy fire. Explosions occur but British soldiers continue to advance.

Date: 1916, July 1
Duration: 5 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048367
British soldiers carry wounded during the Battle of Somme in France, World War I

British soldiers during the Battle of Somme, World War 1 in France. Shells fired at British trenches as a British soldier carries a wounded comrade on his back across a trench. Two soldiers carry a wounded soldier on a wheeled stretcher along a trench.

Date: 1916
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048369