Ruined village behind a British defence trench. One of a series of British aerial reconnaissance photographs recording the positions of trenches on the Western Front during the First World War. A bomb-damaged village lies behind a British defence trench, which zig-zags its way across the fields protected by a line of barbed wire. An original caption identifies the positions of a number of field guns, stationed beside the roads leading into the village. Nord-Pas de Calais or Picardie, France, 28 January 1918. France, Western Europe, Europe .
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Ruined village behind a British defence trench. One of a series of British aerial reconnaissance photographs recording the positions of trenches on the Western Front during the First World War. A bomb-damaged village lies behind a British defence trench, which zig-zags its way across the fields protected by a line of barbed wire. An original caption identifies the positions of a number of field guns, stationed beside the roads leading into the village. Nord-Pas de Calais or Picardie, France, 28 January 1918. France, Western Europe, Europe .

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Ruin Battlefield Destruction Road Ruin Trench Village Wars and conflict World War I (1914-18) Wars and conflict Damage and destruction Landscape and scenery Cities and towns Transport and communication Road Military and armed forces British Army France Western Europe Europe

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