British Army at the Battle of Somme in France during World War 1. A Divisional General mounted on a horse addresses the Lancashire Fusiliers and Royal fusiliers and a Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment before the Battle of the Somme in France. British gunners firing 4.7 inch (120 mm) guns at very low elevation (almost point blank direct fire). As the guns fire, the recoil drives them back considerably on their heavy wheels, which are arrested by chocks.
British Army at the Battle of Somme in France during World War 1. A 6 inch Howitzer fired at German first line in Mametz, France. Explosions occur and smoke rises. A Canadian 60 pounder fired at German positions. Soldiers fire the 60 pounder from behind sand bag mounds. Shrapnels burst over German trenches. Infantry and cavalry units of London Scottish and East Yorkshire march forward for the battle area. A Priest conducts a prayer service as soldiers stand around him in a circle before the Battle of Somme.
British soldiers during the Battle of Somme, World War 1 in France. British Lancashire Fusiliers occupy a sunken road in no man's land in France. Soldiers with rifles at the road. Close-up views of British soldiers. Warwick Regiment soldiers (Warwickshires) advance up a captured German trench.
Camera pans across a battlefield area of the Battle of the Somme in France, during World War I. A French soldier walking among the wreckage of the battlefield in Maurepas. Sparse defoliated trees across the landscape of ruin. Ruins of the Church at Frise, France, with heavily damaged walls and roof; the structure is barely still standing. Grave markers of soldiers buried where they fell. A grave marked with a French soldier's helmet atop the cross. Another grave of a World War 1 soldier.
Battalion of British Manchester Regiment occupying "Dantzig Alley" trench, near Mametz, after capturing it during Battle of the Somme in France, during World War 1. A captured German 17cm Trench Mortar. Ambulatory wounded British soldiers seen among other troops at their army post, near Minden, France.
The conditions of Verdun and surrounding after the Battle of Verdun, France, during World War I. Wrecked buildings near the Meuse River. A wrecked bridge over the river Meuse. French soldiers walk on the street. Buildings along the sides of the street. Military vehicles pass on the street. French soldiers stand outside a building. Ruins of buildings and rubble near the river Meuse. Trees in the area. Interior of the wrecked Verdun Cathedral (7 Pl. Mgr Ginisty, 55100 Verdun, France).
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