'Sappers remove a derelict tank obstructing the "corduroy" road built over the mud, before Peronne', 1918 (c)

Stereoscopic photograph, 1918 (c).

An officer oversees soldiers working on the wreck of an Allied tank. The 'corduroy road' mentioned in the photograph caption refers to the temporary paths built of layers of tree trunks, branches and earth, to combat the mud and shell-pocked terrain of the Western Front.

From a collection of 96 stereoscopic photographs entitled 'The Great War'.