THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE SOMME: A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE GROUND ON THE OPENING MORNING
... made by a British signalling officer of American birth, has just come into our hands at the moment when the battle is once more raging on the Somme. It shows the ground held by the Germans up to 7.30 a.m. on July 1, 1916, when our advance began. From south ...