2-710-869 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Consolidating A Captured Position', (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919, British soldiers in enemy trenches: 'Not the least important part of "consolidating" a captured position, after it has been held, is that of "cleaning up" and making it habitable after the evacuation of the Boche [German soldiers].' 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]