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Battle of the Ancre, 13 - 18 November 1916: Wounded British troops at a Dressing Station in Aveluy Wood. One man shows damage to his steel helmet from which he suffered a head wound.
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Battle of the Ancre, 13 - 18 November 1916: Wounded British troops at a Dressing Station in Aveluy Wood. One man shows damage to his steel helmet from which he suffered a head wound.
More WWI in color in my book, The World Aflame.
Photo by John Warwick Brooke.
English poet Edmund Blunden called the battle "a feat of arms vieing (sic) with any recorded. The enemy was surprised and beaten". Four German divisions had to be relieved due to the number of casualties they suffered and over 7,000 German troops were taken prisoner.
The battle was the last of the big British attacks of the Battle of the Somme. British attacks resumed in the Operations on the Ancre in January 1917.
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