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Dead German soldiers being buried by British soldiers during Battle of the Somme in France during World War I

Dead German soldiers lie in the battlefield during the battle of the Somme in World War 1. A battalion of Middlesex Regiment digs graves and buries the dead German soldiers on the battlefield where they fell.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048391
British artillery batteries move beyond Mametz during Battle of the Somme in France during World War I

Battle of the Somme, in World War 1.Two batteries of Royal field artillery moving to a position beyond Mametz, over battlefield where Gordons' and Devons' suffered losses during a charge on a ridge near Mametz. Horses pull numerous British artillery guns and limbers. The artillery assembling at the new location.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048376
Wounded British soldiers given first aid at Minden Post during Battle of Somme in France during World War I

The British Dressing Station for slightly wounded at Minden Post, during Battle of the Somme, in World War 1. Medics providing first aid to the wounded. Watching in the background are several soldiers of the 24th Oldham (Pioneers) Battalion, awaiting orders to advance and occupy captured German trenches. German curtain artillery barrage outside the Minden Post. Their shells exploding in a line across the battlefield. A lone British soldier standing in the remains of British fire trenches wrecked by German high explosive shelling, minutes before. British patrol moving cautiously and stepping over barbed wire, in no-man's-land to clear the area of German snipers and hidden machine guns. They move along line of captured trenches checking for German soldiers hidden in dugouts.

Date: 1916
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048388
German artillery captured by British troops during Battle of the Somme during World War I

British troops carrying two captured German 9.15cm Light Trench Mortars, in the Battle of the Somme, during World War 1. They place them on the ground where an officer examines them and British gunner demonstrates how they work. At La Boiselle, France, British artillerymen, with horses, pull captured German 77mm field guns and limbers. One of the captured guns is seen with writing on it in chalk reading: "Captured by 7th Division."

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048381
German counter attack during Battle of Somme in France during World War I

British soldiers hide among bushes as Germans launch a counter attack in the distance, at La Boiselle, France, during World War 1. The German attack commences with artillery barrage raising smoke from exploding shells across the horizon in the distance. Four weary British soldiers walk towards the rear carrying a wounded comrade on stretcher. They place the stretcher on the ground to take a momentary rest.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048377
Extract from film "The Somme" depicts German troops in trench warfare against South African Brigade in Battle of the Somme, World War I.

Scenes from British feature film "The Somme" made in 1927, about the Battle of the Somme in World War 1. Part of it depicts events involving the South African Brigade in the battle. The extract opens with shells bursting all along No Man's Land among fragments of trees. Explosions and smoke everywhere. On July 18, 1916, Nine German Battalions deploy to drive the South African Brigade from the Delville Wood. Several soldiers of the Brigade seen entrenched in a sand-bagged position as a German shell explodes only yards from them. German soldiers advance through the broken trees and brush, while under fire by British gunners using Vickers machine guns. Some German soldiers falling and others seeking cover in abandoned trench. A line of South African troops firing their rifles from a trench, as several German soldiers reach them and are shot dead just feet away. A British soldier is shot while climbing out of a trench containing several fallen comrades. Other British (or South African) troops scrambling to find a safer place. One crawling across the ground. A British gunner firing a Lewis gun. German troops starting to go over-the-top, from their trench. British soldiers advancing. German gunner firing Maxim gun from fortified position, as shells burst in the distant background. A horizontal line of British troops advancing toward the German position. Some are cut down by the machine gun fire. German gunner firing a captured British Vickers machine gun. British soldiers hunkered down in a deep shell hole behind a ridge. They use their trenching tools to dig in deeper. Several German shells burst in the air. Two British soldiers watch as a tank approaches through the smoke. Large numbers of British troops attack downhill through smoke and haze. German soldiers preparing to defend an occupied structure, as more British troops charge forward. Post-battle view of the area, with fallen soldiers marked by rifles stuck in the ground with helmets on them. (Note: The tanks shown in this film are models Mark V which did not enter service until 1918.)

Date: 1927
Duration: 3 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051112