Battle of the Somme (1920-1929)

Great Britain.

Preparation for the operation from June 25 to June 30, 1916. The division prepares to move out.

Soldiers, horses.

Bray.

Platoons of Bedford, Suffolk.

A battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers maneuvers on the eve of the attack Great Britain.

City streets.

Soldiers moving in columns.

Infantry, horsemen.

Peasants working near the front line.

Cavalry horses at a watering hole.

An officer with a fox Great Britain.

Preparation of ammunition along the entire front line.

Ammunition stored on the ground.

Equipment for batteries hidden from the enemy.

Unloading shells from boxes.

A divisional general addresses the Lancashire Fusiliers.

He rides around the formation of soldiers.

Soldiers set out on a campaign Great Britain.

English guns are shelling enemy positions.

Preparing a gun.

The gun fires. 6-inch howitzers shelling German positions in the Mametz area.

Clouds of explosions.

Canadian guns shell German positions with shrapnel from a pillbox.

Clouds of shrapnel explosions over German positions Great Britain.

Londoners, Scots and East Yorkshiremen move out to take up positions in the trenches.

A priest from Manchester celebrates mass for the soldiers.

Preparing bombs called plume puddings, designed to destroy wire entanglements.

Loading these bombs into mortars.

Shelling German positions with 9.2-inch howitzers.

A long-range gun is aimed at German positions.

The gun fires.

Clouds of explosions

Great Britain.

The soldiers are having dinner.

They are in front of the camera.

They are having dinner, drinking tea, smoking.

Shelling of German positions from 12-inch howitzers.

View of the shells.

They are being loaded into the gun.

Aiming the howitzer.

The gun is firing Great Britain.

The new battalion of the Royal Warwickshires is moving into the trenches.

The battalion of the Worcestershires is attaching scissors to their rifles to cut the enemy's wire entanglements.

The soldiers are walking along the road.

Special shells, the so-called "flying pigs", are being prepared for the upcoming battle.

The gun is firing this shell.

A field battery occupies captured German trenches.

Killed horses Great Britain.

Royal Marine gunners are shelling German positions with the so-called "grandmothers" - 15-inch howitzers.

View of the shells.

A shell is being lifted on a special crane to be loaded into the "grandmother".

Aiming the "grandmother".

The gun is firing Shelling German positions UK. July 1, 1916. Morning of the attack.

View of the battlefield.

Lancashire battalion awaits instructions, then moves to forward positions.

Bombers replenish ammunition.

Shelling German positions with mortars.

Royal Engineers prepare a position for approaching troops.

Machine guns prepare for battle.

Shrapnel explodes over German positions

Great Britain.

Lancashire Fusiliers occupy a road in a hollow in "no man's land".

Warwickshire men occupy a captured trench from the enemy.

Attack on signal along the entire 16-mile front.

English troops leave their trenches under enemy fire and rush towards the German positions.

One of the sections of the front.

Soldiers on the offensive Great Britain.

British "Tommies" carry out a wounded comrade.

Orderlies carry out the wounded.

They are transported on carts.

Lancashire battalion returns with prisoners, leading the slightly wounded, carrying the seriously wounded on stretchers Great Britain.

Royal Field Artillery moves to new positions.

Two advanced batteries lead the movement.

One of the unsuccessful German counter-attacks in the La Boisselle area Great Britain.

Guns captured by the British.

Captured German trenches.

Arrival of the English wounded.

Liberated from the Germans trenches.

The wounded await examination and assistance.

Loading the wounded into ambulances

Great Britain.

British wounded and shell-shocked German prisoners.

An officer gives the Germans something to drink, and a soldier offers them cigarettes.

Seizure of various documents from prisoners and return of their soldier's books.

Orderlies bring the wounded.

A new batch of prisoners.

Treatment of the lightly wounded.

A battalion of Manchester sappers is sent to captured German trenches.

Great Britain.

The Germans are shelling British positions.

A British trench destroyed by German fire.

Clearing the battlefield of snipers and hidden machine-gun nests.

Prisoners and wounded discovered by the so-called "combat police" in "no man's land".

Prisoners awaiting transportation to the rear.

German trenches between Fricourt and Mametz destroyed by British artillery fire.

Great Britain.

The mail "catches up" with the Devonians during the battle.

Killed Germans.

A selection of corpses.

Preparing pits for burial

Aftermath of British artillery fire.

Destroyed German trenches.

Shell and mine craters.

Destroyed German fortifications at Fricourt.

The Duke of Cornwall's Light Horse Labour Battalion repairing roads UK. Views of the ruined village of Mametz.

The main street.

Ruins of houses.

Captured guns from the Germans in the La Boisselle area UK. Lancashire Fusiliers at rest after the battle.

Gathering for roll call.

Royal Fusiliers using their personal toilet.

Essex Regiment soldiers washing at a spring.

Marines roll call.

Cleaning machine guns.

A group of gunners on the battlefield.

Returning an 8-inch howitzer and preparing it for the next battle.

Soldiers in front of a camera.

German prisoners being prepared for shipment to England.

Map of the Battle of the Somme