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Description: | Soldiers of 'A' Company, 11th Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment, occupy a captured German trench at Ovillers-la-Boisselle on the Somme. In this photograph one man keeps sentry duty, looking over the parados and using an improvised fire step cut into the back slope of the trench, while his comrades rest.
Optimised | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Cheshire Regiment Rest & Relaxation Battle of the Somme 1916 Western Front 1914-1918 British Army 1914-1918 Allied Offensive British Army Land Warfare Western Front trench warfare First World War 11th (Service) Battalion | 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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