... H Somme Battlefield in its Mantle of Snow. [Photos. by C..N.1 SNOW ON THE SOMME FRONT A BATTLEFIELD NEAR CLÊRY ; AND AN ARTILLERY PIP.' f i Wkd bildid htteed Just as time has power to make old bareness picturesque, so the mantle of snow which recently ...

... HIGHEST TRADITIONS F race 1 BRITISH TROOPS DRIVING GERMANS OUT OF THEIR TRENCHES ON THE SOMME FRONT. Sir Douglas Haig, in his recent despatch on the Battle of the Somme, paid a high tribute to the troops, he pointed out, had been raised and trained during ...

... FRENCH ON THE SOMME : GERMAN PRISONERS AWAITING DISPOSAL. Many thousands of Germans have fallen into the hands of the French since the Battle of the Somme began. A recent French communiqué stated: The total number of prisoners taken on the Somme by the A ...

... French campaign on the Somme. The taking of Rancourt meant four days of ferocious fighting, but it was finally stormed by the French and the enemy forced from surrounding hills. Bouchavesnes (second illustration), also north of the Somme towards Pcronne, was ...

... On the Somme front —in a Senegalese Camp. duty, are wasg cth —[Photos. by Photoprtss.] FRENCH COLONIAL TROOPS RESTING: PREPARING THE COMPANY COFFEE —AN OPEN-AIR LAUNDRY. To the Germans, from all accounts, the French blacks, the Senegalese tirailleur ...

... Scenc of the Somme Battlefields. —[Official Photos] BOMBARDED WOOD ENEMY AMMUNITION. BY COURCELETTES AND IN THE DISTRICT : The upper illustration shows a scene too sadly universal now all over the formerly well-wooded district» of the Somme Valley and the ...

... frencb Reserves on the Somme front. —[Photos. by C.N.] COMPANY. INFANTRY HORSE LINES ; AN AND AWAITING ORDERS : A FIELD ARTILLERY PARK The upper illustration shows a French reserve artillery park in rear of the Somme battle-area. Park is the term ...

... Victors pf the Somme: Two famous french Generals. —[French War Office Official Photograph ORGANISERS OF THE FRENCH OFFENSIVE ON THE SOMME : GEN. FOCH (RIGHT) AND GEN. FAYOLLE. General Foch, who did such brilliant work in the Battle of the Marne and in ...

... Sxcbange of powere and Duties : fretil u Joope Replaced by British on the Somme, —[French Official Photograph.] THE BRITISH THE EXTENSION OF LINE IN FRANCE : FRENCH TROOPS 0R °F THE SOMME FRONT WAS RECENTLY TAKEN OVER BY OUR MEN. F It became known a few weeks ...

... REGIMENT BORNE THEM ACTION : A GAKDt ÜÜ DR-4PEAU TAKING PART FRENCH INFANTRY ADVANCE THE SOMME. hl This interesting photograph was taken during an action on the Somme which a French communiqué thus described : the course of a brilliant assault to the south ...

... The illustration shows a corner in a French military tlhe TELEPHONE EXCHANGE IN THE SOMME AREA : TRANSMITTING MESSAGES. A Hdd telephone «change somewhere in the Somme district, with soldier-operators a work. The seats are occupied by relays of men co ...

... prisoner Making for Safety. —[Official Photograph.) ON THE SOMME FRONT : A GERMAN PRISONER RUNNING TO THE BRITISH LINES. The large captures of prisoners made in the great advance on the Somme has revealed the fact that many Germans taken have shown alacrity ...