'Outside a captured German dug-out', August 1916

Coloured photographic postcard from a set of eight 'Daily Mail' Official War picture postcards, 'The King at the Front', 1916.

King George V inspects a German dug-out near Fricourt on the Somme during a visit to the Western Front. The king made several visits to France during the war. On one visit in 1915 he fell off his horse and broke his pelvis. In 1917, sensitive of the Royal Family's German background, George changed their name from the German sounding Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.