2-710-820 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'An Infantry Attack on the Somme', (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: 'British troops are seen advancing across the open chalky plain of the Somme [in northern France] towards the German trenches near Mametz. The "woolly bear" overhead indicates that the Germans' artillery are peppering the advancing troops with shrapnel.' From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. VI, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]