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A British Army band playing to troops in a square at Arras, August 1918

Photograph, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), 1918.

The Arras region was the scene of fierce fighting during the Allied Hundred Days Offensive of 1918. The previous year it had witnessed a Commonwealth offensive that suffered some of the highest casualty rates sustained by an attacking force during the entire war.

From an album of 24 photographs.

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 1995-03-84-22

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum, Out of Copyright

Location

National Army Museum, Study collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1995-03-84-22