First day on the Somme
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The first day on the Somme was the beginning of the Battle of Albert the name given by the British to the first two weeks of the Battle of the Somme in the First World War. Nine corps of the French Si
An example of a Lewis gun
60-pounder gun battery
Aerial photograph of a British gas attack from Carnoy to Montauban, shortly before the Somme offensive.
Diagram of the Lochnagar mine
Lochnagar mine
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The Lochnagar mine south of the village of La Boisselle in the Somme département was an underground explosive charge, secretly planted by the British during the First World War, to be ready for 1 July
Geological cross-section of the Somme battlefield
The memorial cross
William Orpen: Mines and the Bapaume Road, La Boisselle (Art.IWMART2962)