From "The Battle of the Somme." British Army at the Battle of Somme in France during World War 1. British infantry and cavalry units wait to move forward and get into trenches near Fricourt Mametz in France. At Bray platoons of Buff, Bedford, Suffolk and a battalion of Royal Welish Fusiliers lined up and march forward. Cavalry units also move forward. French farmers in fields, they tend the artillery horses and make them drink water. A General stands with a live fox in his arms (or possibly a slender dog), as soldiers stand beside and behind him in the background.
British Army at the Battle of Somme in France during World War I. Ammunition supplies obtained by the British forces. A large field with tents, soldiers, cavalry, artillery carts and supply boxes. Trucks loaded with ammunition boxes. Trucks move in and British soldiers unload ammunition boxes carrying artillery shells from the truck.
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.
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 troops in World War 1 Battle of the Somme, are seen at a huge stockpile of mortar shells called "Plum Puddings" that are most effective in smashing German barbed wire entanglements. Soldiers carrying them from the pile as quartermasters make a count of them. British Troops, in a well protected dugout, loading a 2 inch trench mortar with attached periscope post and "Plum Pudding" shell atop. They afix the fuse and crawl into the dugout, away from the mortar and fire it remotely with a cord. They repeat the process.
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