Attending to a wounded runner, 1917 (c)

Photograph, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), 1917 (c).

Runners carried messages between trenches, dug-outs, unit HQs and the rear areas. It was a dangerous job as they were vulnerable to sniping and artillery from the enemy lines.

From an album of 19 official photographs of the 1st, 1/7th, 16th, and the 25th Battalions of the Middlesex Regiment.