Aerial view of a front line system. One of a series of British aerial reconnaissance photographs recording the positions of trenches on the Western Front during the First World War. Shell craters pepper the fields surrounding a front line trench, probably British, which runs west to east. An original caption identifies the area to the north as no man's land. Nord-Pas de Calais or Picardie, France, 26 February 1918., Nord-Pas de Calais, France, Western Europe, Europe .
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Aerial view of a front line system. One of a series of British aerial reconnaissance photographs recording the positions of trenches on the Western Front during the First World War. Shell craters pepper the fields surrounding a front line trench, probably British, which runs west to east. An original caption identifies the area to the north as no man's land. Nord-Pas de Calais or Picardie, France, 26 February 1918., Nord-Pas de Calais, France, Western Europe, Europe .

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Battlefield Destruction Trench Wars and conflict World War I (1914-18) Wars and conflict Damage and destruction Landscape and scenery Nord-Pas de Calais France Western Europe Europe

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