Title

Consolidating A Captured Position', (1919).

Caption

'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]

Date

1919

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F15_098

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

60,2Mb (2,6Mb) / 18,2in x 12,8in / 5459 x 3853 (300dpi)

Keywords

photograph people male man men guy British mud territorial military war Armed Forces century Britain first world war TERRITORY position concept troops B&W captured MONOCHROME Army warfare trench trenches Regiment World War I WWI infantry battlefield black & white black and white B W World War One 1910s 20th century consolidation The Print Collector 1st World War WW1 photograph front line Unknown Knight Caxton Publishing Company William Stanley Macbean Knight William Stanley Macbean W. Stanley Macbean Knight W Stanley Macbean Knight W. Stanley Macbean W Stanley Macbean W. S. M. W. S. M. Knight Caxton Pulishing Company Lim