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Description: | Men of the Lancashire Fusiliers sit in a muddy puddle on the floor of a front line trench opposite Messines to clean a Lewis gun. Behind them, as the trench bends round to the right, a group of men can be seen standing in the trench, one of them with his bayonet fixed. To the left of the photographs, can be seen the gas alarm horn and wind vane. Several rows of sandbags form the top left-hand edge of the trench.
Men of the Lancashire Fusiliers cleaning a Lewis gun in a trench near Messines in Belgium during January 1917.
Optimised Image | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Daily Life trenches Western Front 1914-1918 Lancashire Fusiliers British Army 1914-1918 Chemical Warfare British Army | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Brooke, John Warwick (Lieutenant) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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