Cross-section of a front-line trench Arrival in France (Etaples)

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Cross-section of a front-line trench

Arrival in France (Etaples)

British wiring party near Arras

A soldier uses a box periscope to look at No-Man's-Land.

Hill 60, a few miles from Ypres in 1915, a German stronghold - Peter Savelkoul

Artillery stuck in the mud in Flanders

No-Man's- Land at Passchen- daele in 1917

Officers walking through a flooded communication trench

British boy soldier in the Great War

Young German recruits

Over the top in gas and smoke

A Blighty case at Passchendaele

Tending the wounded at a dressing station at Monchy

A British Army chaplain takes the personal belongings from the bodies of the fallen.

French soldiers collect their dead and wounded.

After the attack

The standard form sent by the British War Office to next of kin to notify them of the death of a member of the army