British soldiers in the snow at Maricourt, February 1917

Lantern slide, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), 1917.

Maricourt had witnessed heavy fighting during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. It remained in Allied hands until the German Spring offensive in 1918. When this photograph was taken it was in a relatively quiet sector of the front.

From a box of 73 lantern slides.