Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916
Photograph, World War One, Western Front, (1914-1918), 1916.
An assault battalion of the 103rd (Tyneside Irish) Brigade advance shortly after zero hour on 1 July during the Allied attack on La Boisselle. The 3,000-strong brigade attacked across Mash Valley but was caught by German machine-gun fire in no-man's land, sustaining over 1,900 casualties during the day.
From a collection of 98 official war photographs.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 2001-01-279-17
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2001-01-279-17