Title

Trench warfare on the Hindenburg Line, Bellicourt, France, World War I, 1917-1918.Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers

Caption

Trench warfare on the Hindenburg Line, Bellicourt, France, World War I, 1917-1918. The Hindenburg Line was a vast system of defences built on the Western Front by the Germans in the winter of 1916-1917. It extended from Lens in the north to beyond Verdun and was believed by the German High Command to be impregnable. In fact British and Newfoundland forces using tanks briefly broke through the line at Cambrai in 1917, and it was breached in several places in September 1918 during the Allied Hundred Days Offensive. Stereoscopic card detail.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1917

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C53_318

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,3Mb) / 13,6in x 14,3in / 4083 x 4284 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male man men France guy British weapon weapons gun guns Flanders attacking dress war front location century helmet Britain soldiers rifle first world war concept bayonet picardy B&W MONOCHROME Army advancing warfare trench trenches World War I WWI infantry battlefield black & white black and white B W weaponry Military personnel World War One 1910s 20th century British Army The Print Collector 1st World War TGN trench warfare Western Front WW1 photograph Realistic Travels Publishers Hindenburg Line Bellicourt photograph