Somme Collection (page 11)

Field kitchen 1916
British troops receiving hot dinner rations from a field kitchen in the Ancre area of the Somme. Hot food was not supplied to front line British troops until late in 1915

The Somme 1916
British soldiers, silhouetted against the sky, rush to the attack across no mans land during the Battle of the Somme

Disused British trench 1916
An old British trench at the Fricourt Salient on the Somme battlefield

British field guns 1916
British field guns in action during the Battle of the Somme

Royal Irish Rifles 1916
British troops - a party of the Royal Irish Rifles - rest in a communication trench on the first day of the Battle of the Somme

German casualty
The remains of a German casualty of the fighting lies to the side of a rough track somewhere on the Somme

German Flame-thrower; First World War, 1916
Photograph showing a captured German flame-thrower, displayed in a yard behind the French lines, 1916. This flame-thrower, or flammenwerfer, was captured during one of the battles of the Somme

British Convoy heading for the Somme Front; First World War
Photograph showing a convoy of British trucks heading towards the Somme section of the Western Front, 1916

Mounted French Spahis guarding German prisoners; First World
Photograph showing French Algerian Spahis on horseback guarding German soldiers captured during the Battle of the Somme, 1916

The entrance to a captured German dug-out
The staircase and entrance to a German dug-out captured by the British army during the Somme offensive in July 1916. Such shelters were often highly elaborate

The beginning of the Somme offensive
British troops are shown marching across German trenches at the beginning of the Somme offensive of July 1916. Some soldiers are shown consolidating the captured positions

The crater of an exploded mine
A photograph showing one side of a crater left by the detonation of a buried mine by the French army as part of the Somme offensive of 1916

British soldiers advancing as reinforcements
Soldiers are shown marching to reinforce a British attacking force in France, September 1916. The advance was part of the greater British Somme offensive which began in July of that year

During the British Advance in the West: Australian Officers
Official photograph from August 1916 showing a group of Australian soldiers stopping for lunch during the British advance at the Western Front

Allied Advance at Somme
British troops advance to the attack across the trenches

Edward IV Meets Louis XI
Edward IV meets Louis XI on a bridge over the Somme

1916 / Somme / Maisonette
Dawn breaks at the Maisonette as French troops struggle through the knee-deep mud

Chateau De Rambures
Chateau de Rambures (Somme)

British Supply Wagons
The war has just begun - and the British troops are already hungry. Supplies on the way to the Front pass through the Place d Armes at Albert (Somme) watched by locals

Thaw on the Somme, Wwi
British artillery ploughing its way through mud and water to Gommecourt after the thawing of the Somme

French Infantryman
A poilu, informal term for a French infantryman, of the Somme with his rifle and pack

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