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.
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.
Royal Marine Artillerymen load and fire a 15-inch ("Grandmother") howitzer, during the Battle of the somme, in World War 1. Shells weighting 1400 pounds each are lined up. A Marine next to a shell on which is written 'to Willie with compliments. ' Shells lifted up with the help of a crane. British Marines adjust and fire the 15 inch Howitzer. Explosions occur across barbed wires. Howitzer fired and smoke rises.
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.
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.
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.
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