Photograph by John Warwick Brooke
Men of the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment) with German rifles salvaged near Marcoing on the 22nd of November, 1917. First World War.
The photograph was taken during the First Battle of Cambrai in France.
The Sherwood Foresters were an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1970.
British soldiers of the 4th Battalion, Royal Leicestershire Regiment fire at German snipers and machine gunners on the edge of the Bois de Requerval, France on the 10th of October, 1918.
The image was taken by John Warwick Brooke, who was Britain’s second official photographer of the First World War.
The advance to recapture the Selle in the Picardy region was complete by the end of the month.
By John Warwick Brooke, Britain’s second official war photographer.
The Battle of Pilckem Ridge, part of the larger Battle of Passchendaele in the First World War, was fought between the 31st July and the 2nd of August, 1917.
In this photograph, British soldiers struggle through thick mud to carry a wounded man to safety near Boesinghe (Boezinge) on the 1st of August.
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