Show Navigation
Search Results
Refine Search
Keywords:
Match all words
Match any word
City:
State (US):
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Armed Forces Americas
Armed Forces
Armed Forces Pacific
Country:
United States
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Aland Islands
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antarctica
Antigua/Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia/Herzegowina
Botswana
Bouvet Island
Brazil
British Indian Ocean Territory
Brunei Darussalam
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Colombia
Comoros
Congo, Democratic Republic
Congo
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Cote D'ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
Faroe Islands
Fiji
Finland
France
French Guiana
French Polynesia
French Southern Territories
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Gibraltar
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Heard/McDonald Islands
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran (Islamic Republic)
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Isle of Man
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jersey
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea, D.P.R.
Korea, Republic
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Lao, P.D.R.
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Martinique
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mayotte
Mexico
Micronesia, Federated States
Moldova, Republic
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Norfolk Island
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palestinian Territory
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Pitcairn
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Reunion
Romania
Russian Federation
Rwanda
Saint Kitts/Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent/Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome/Principe
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
S. Georgia/Sandwich Islands
Spain
Sri Lanka
St. Helena
St. Pierre/Miquelon
Sudan
Suriname
Svalbard/Jan Mayen Islands
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syrian Arab Republic
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania, United Republic
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad/Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks/Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
U.S. Minor Outlying Islands
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City State (Holy See)
Venezuela
Viet Nam
Virgin Islands (British)
Virgin Islands (U.S.)
Wallis/Futuna Islands
Western Sahara
Yemen
Yugoslavia
Zaire
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Model Released:
Yes
No
Any
Property Released:
Yes
No
Any
Orientation:
Vertical
Horizontal
Square
Panoramic
Any
Pricing Type:
Prints
Personal Use
Royalty-Free
Rights-Managed
(leave unchecked to
search all images)
Sort By:
Relevance
Date (most recent)
{ 301 images found }
Loading (
)...
France WW1 Clermont en Argonne _3600...jpg
Belgium Mons_St Symphorien CWGC Ceme...jpg
Ypres_Tin Soldier _1002284BW.jpg
Ypres Hill 60_1002443BW.jpg
Ypres Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood_48194BW.jpg
Ypres Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood_48149BW.jpg
Somme_Auchonvillers _46898BW.jpg
Ypres The Iron Harvest 8022BW.jpg
Somme_Auchonvillers Trenches and Cel...jpg
Somme Auchonvillers Trenches_47352.jpg
Somme Auchonvillers Trenches_47322.jpg
Ypres_Passendaele _1002265BW.jpg
Ypres Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood_48145BW.jpg
Somme Auchonvillers Trenches_47335.jpg
Somme Auchonvillers Trenches_47352.jpg
Somme Auchonvillers Trenches_47335.jpg
Somme Auchonvillers Trenches_47322.jpg
Somme Auchonvillers _46898.jpg
Ypres Hill 60_48113BW.jpg
Somme Auchonvillers _46898.jpg
Ypres Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood_48140BW.jpg
France Pennsylvania State Memorial V...jpg
France Argonne-Butte de Vauquois _35...jpg
Somme_Memorial in Hamel _x34522.jpg
Somme Lochnagar Crater_La Boisselle ...jpg
France Argonne-Butte de Vauquois _48...jpg
France Argonne Forest-the Abri du Kr...jpg
Somme_Albert _34246BW.jpg
France Verdun Voie Sacree-Sacred Way...jpg
France Verdun Voie Sacree-Sacred Way...jpg
Somme_Memorial in Hamel _x34522.jpg
Ypres_Demarcation Stone _1002261BW.jpg
Somme_Memorial in Hamel _34522BW.jpg
Somme Lochnagar Crater_La Boisselle ...jpg
France Verdun Battlefield Abri 320 _...jpg
France Hill 285 Argonne Forest Memor...jpg
France Argonne-Butte de Vauquois _48...jpg
France Argonne-Butte de Vauquois _35...jpg
France Argonne Forest 2014 _48541BW.jpg
France Argonne Forest 2014 _48489BW.jpg
Somme Thiepval Memorial 2007BW.jpg
France Argonne-Butte de Vauquois _35...jpg
Somme_Newfoundland Park_47406.jpg
Somme_Waggon Road CWGC Cemetery_3447...jpg
Somme_Guillemont Road CWGC Cemetery ...jpg
France Verdun Battlefield _49024BW.jpg
MILL ROAD CEM.-SOMME-1.jpg
Somme_Munich Trench CWGC Cemetery _3...jpg
Somme_Beaumont Hamel Church window _...jpg
France Verdun Battlefield Fort de Va...jpg
RAILWAY HOLLOW SOMME.jpg
Somme-Beaumont Hamel CWGC Cemetery _...jpg
Somme_Waggon Road CWGC Cemetery _471...jpg
Somme_Sheffield Memorial Park _47250.jpg
Somme_Sheffield Memorial Park _47245.jpg
Somme_Serre Road No 2 CWGC Cemetery ...jpg
Somme_Munich Trench CWGC Cemetery _3...jpg
Somme_Waggon Road CWGC Cemetery _471...jpg
Somme_Sheffield Memorial Park _47250.jpg
Somme_Sheffield Memorial Park _10020...jpg
Somme_Munich Trench CWGC Cemetery_47...jpg
Somme Battlefield Pozieres Cemetery.jpg
Ypres_Tyne Cot CWGC Cemetery _47781B...jpg
Ypres_Langemark German Cemetery _478...jpg
Ypres_Ireland Peace Park_Messines_47...jpg
Ypres_Christmas Truce _47717BW.jpg
Ypres John McCrae Dugouts _48256BW.jpg
Somme_Sheffield Memorial Park47XXXBW.jpg
Somme_German Pillbox_Warlencourt_474...jpg
Somme Newfoundland Memorial Park _46...jpg
France Verdun Cimetiere de Faubourg ...jpg
France Verdun Battlefield Ouvrage de...jpg
France Verdun Battlefield Fort de Do...jpg
France Verdun Battlefield _48720BW.jpg
Somme_Waggon Road CWGC Cemetery_3447...jpg
Ypres_Aeroplane CWGC Cemetery _34773...jpg
Somme_German Cemetery Rancourt _3429...jpg
France Verdun Battlefield Ouvrage de...jpg
Somme_Munich Trench CWGC Cemetery_47...jpg
Somme_Beaumont Hamel Church window _...jpg
Somme-Beaumont Hamel CWGC Cemetery _...jpg
Somme_Serre-Hebuterne French Cemeter...jpg
Somme_Serre Road No 2 CWGC Cemetery ...jpg
Somme_Newfoundland Memorial Park_473...jpg
Ypres_Langemark German Cemetery _478...jpg
Somme_Thiepval _46971_DxOFP.jpg
Somme_French Soldiers Memorial _4711...jpg
Somme_Connaught CWGC Cemtery _34278B...jpg
France Verdun Fort de Souville Panor...jpg
France Verdun Battlefield Fort de Do...jpg
Somme_Waggon Road CWGC Cemetery_3445...jpg
Somme_Sheffield Memorial Park _10020...jpg
Somme_Serre-Hebuterne French Cemeter...jpg
Somme_Serre Road No 2 CWGC Cemetery ...jpg
Somme_Newfoundland Park_47406.jpg
Somme_Newfoundland Memorial Park_473...jpg
Somme Battlefield Pozieres Cemetery.jpg
Somme_Sheffield Memorial Park _47245.jpg
Somme_Serre Road No 2 CWGC Cemetery ...jpg
Ypres_Tyne Cot CWGC Cemetery _47794B...jpg
Brian Harris the Independent Photographer
Portfolio
About
Contact
Archive
All Galleries
Search
Cart
Lightbox
Client Area
To buy my book -and then the Prime Minister hit me
Buy my book from Amazon
![Ypres-Ieper WW1 Battlefield, 1914-1918, Belgium. Unexploded WW1 Shells at Two Mine Craters, Kruisstraat, Flanders, Belgium. February 2014<br />
The Iron Harvest. Unexploded WW1 ordnance waiting to be collected by Belgian Bomb disposal team from Belgian Army in Mine Crater country to the south of Ypres. Hundreds of shells are unearthed each year on the battlefields of Flanders and across northern France.<br />
<br />
Caption information below from Wikipedia:<br />
The iron harvest is the annual "harvest" of unexploded ordnance, barbed wire, shrapnel, bullets and congruent trench supports collected by Belgian and French farmers after ploughing their fields. The harvest generally applies to the material from World War I, which is still found in large quantities across the former Western Front.<br />
<br />
During World War I an estimated one tonne of explosives was fired for every square metre of territory on the Western front. As many as one in every three shells fired did not detonate.[3] In the Ypres Salient, an estimated 300 million projectiles that the British and the Germans forces fired at each other during World War I were duds, and most of them have not been recovered] In 2013, 160 tonnes of munitions, from bullets to 15 inch naval gun shells, were unearthed from the areas around Ypres.[4]<br />
<br />
Unexploded weapons - in the form of shells, bullets and grenades - buried themselves on impact or were otherwise quickly swallowed in the mud. As time passes, construction work, field ploughing and natural processes bring the rusting shells to the surface. Most of the iron harvest is found during the spring planting and autumn ploughing as the region of northern France and Flanders are rich agricultural areas.[5] Farmers will collect the munitions and place them along the boundaries of fields or other collection points for authorities.<br />
<br />
Despite the condition of the shells, they remain very dangerous. The French Département du Déminage (Department of Mine Clearance) recovers about 900 tons of unexploded muni](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I00003ozkkjIgnUA/fill=/fit=180x180/I00003ozkkjIgnUA.jpg)
![Verdun WW1 Battlefield site, Verdun-sur-Meuse, France. March 2014<br />
Seen here:<br />
The Remains of Fort de Vaux on the Verdun Battlefield.<br />
<br />
Fort Vaux, located in Vaux-Devant-Damloup, Meuse, France, was built in 1881–1884 at a cost of 1,500,000 Francs, built to house 150 men. it became the second Fort to fall in the Battle of Verdun. The first fort to fall had been Fort Douaumont which was virtually undefended and had been captured by a small German raiding party in February 1916. Fort de Vaux, on the other hand, was fully garrisoned when it was attacked on June 2 by German assault troops. The fort had been modernized before 1914 with additional reinforced concrete top protection, like at Fort Douaumont and thus did resist a German heavy artillery preparation which had included shelling by 16 inch howitzers. The superstructure of the fort had been heavily damaged but the deep interior corridors and stations remained intact and can still be seen in their original condition today. One of the fort's side bunkers ("Casemate de Bourges") is still equipped with its 75mm cannon.<br />
<br />
The defense of Fort Vaux was marked by the heroism and endurance of the garrison, including Major Sylvain-Eugene Raynal. Under his command, the besieged French garrison fended off repeated German assaults, including fighting underground from barricades inside the invaded corridors of the fort, which was the first major engagement to happen completely inside a fort during World War I. What was left of the French garrison finally gave up after it had run out of drinkable water (some of which was poisoned), ammunition, medical supplies and food. Raynal sent several messages to his commanding officers via homing pigeons (including the famous Vaillant[verification needed]), requesting relief for his soldiers. During his last communications, Major Raynal penned the phrase "This is my last pigeon."<br />
<br />
After the capture of Fort Vaux on June 7, the Crown Prince of the German ruling family, the Hohenzollerns, prese](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000BpHr90PE0rY/fill=/fit=180x180/I0000BpHr90PE0rY.jpg)
![Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Sheffield Memorial Park. February 2014<br />
Seen Here: Railway Hollow CWGC Cemetery and Sheffield Memorial Park showing original shell craters and dugouts from 1916.<br />
<br />
Sheffield Memorial Park on the Somme where there are many commemoration plaques and memorials to the 'Pals Brigades'; Groups of men who lived in the same street or worked together, signed up into the army together and died together as they attacked the fortified German positions at Serre on the northern flank of the Somme Battlefield. <br />
<br />
Caption information below from Wikipedia:<br />
<br />
Several of these battalions suffered heavy casualties during the Somme offensives of 1916. One of the most notable was the 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment, better known as the Accrington Pals. The Accrington Pals were ordered to attack Serre, the most northerly part of the main assault, on the opening day of the battle. The Accrington Pals were accompanied by Pals battalions drawn from Sheffield, Leeds, Barnsley and Bradford.[2] Of an estimated 700 Accrington Pals who took part in the attack, 235 were killed and 350 wounded within the space of twenty minutes.[3] Despite repeated attempts, Serre was not taken until February 1917, at which time the German forces had evacuated to the Hindenburg Line.](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000j4LETxAH2kE/fill=/fit=180x180/I0000j4LETxAH2kE.jpg)
![Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Sheffield Memorial Park. February 2014<br />
Seen Here: Memorial to Private Albert Bull of the 12th Yorks and Lancs who died on this spot on 1st of July ( the first day of the Somme battle ) and buried here until 1928, when he was discovered and re buried in Serre Road No 2 Cemetery nearby. <br />
<br />
Sheffield Memorial Park on the Somme where there are many commemoration plaques and memorials to the 'Pals Brigades'; Groups of men who lived in the same street or worked together, signed up into the army together and died together as they attacked the fortified German positions at Serre on the northern flank of the Somme Battlefield. <br />
<br />
Caption information below from Wikipedia:<br />
<br />
Several of these battalions suffered heavy casualties during the Somme offensives of 1916. One of the most notable was the 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment, better known as the Accrington Pals. The Accrington Pals were ordered to attack Serre, the most northerly part of the main assault, on the opening day of the battle. The Accrington Pals were accompanied by Pals battalions drawn from Sheffield, Leeds, Barnsley and Bradford.[2] Of an estimated 700 Accrington Pals who took part in the attack, 235 were killed and 350 wounded within the space of twenty minutes.[3] Despite repeated attempts, Serre was not taken until February 1917, at which time the German forces had evacuated to the Hindenburg Line.](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I00005VyVawpXZqE/fill=/fit=180x180/I00005VyVawpXZqE.jpg)
![Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Sheffield Memorial Park. February 2014<br />
Seen Here: Railway Hollow CWGC Cemetery and Sheffield Memorial Park showing original shell craters and dugouts from 1916.<br />
<br />
Sheffield Memorial Park on the Somme where there are many commemoration plaques and memorials to the 'Pals Brigades'; Groups of men who lived in the same street or worked together, signed up into the army together and died together as they attacked the fortified German positions at Serre on the northern flank of the Somme Battlefield. <br />
<br />
Caption information below from Wikipedia:<br />
<br />
Several of these battalions suffered heavy casualties during the Somme offensives of 1916. One of the most notable was the 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment, better known as the Accrington Pals. The Accrington Pals were ordered to attack Serre, the most northerly part of the main assault, on the opening day of the battle. The Accrington Pals were accompanied by Pals battalions drawn from Sheffield, Leeds, Barnsley and Bradford.[2] Of an estimated 700 Accrington Pals who took part in the attack, 235 were killed and 350 wounded within the space of twenty minutes.[3] Despite repeated attempts, Serre was not taken until February 1917, at which time the German forces had evacuated to the Hindenburg Line.](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I00000AXV5EyRB68/fill=/fit=180x180/I00000AXV5EyRB68.jpg)
![Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Sheffield Memorial Park. February 2014<br />
Seen Here: In memory of the Chorley Pals 'Y' Company.<br />
<br />
Sheffield Memorial Park on the Somme where there are many commemoration plaques and memorials to the 'Pals Brigades'; Groups of men who lived in the same street or worked together, signed up into the army together and died together as they attacked the fortified German positions at Serre on the northern flank of the Somme Battlefield. <br />
<br />
Caption information below from Wikipedia:<br />
<br />
Several of these battalions suffered heavy casualties during the Somme offensives of 1916. One of the most notable was the 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment, better known as the Accrington Pals. The Accrington Pals were ordered to attack Serre, the most northerly part of the main assault, on the opening day of the battle. The Accrington Pals were accompanied by Pals battalions drawn from Sheffield, Leeds, Barnsley and Bradford.[2] Of an estimated 700 Accrington Pals who took part in the attack, 235 were killed and 350 wounded within the space of twenty minutes.[3] Despite repeated attempts, Serre was not taken until February 1917, at which time the German forces had evacuated to the Hindenburg Line.](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000KAaL_KbXADs/fill=/fit=180x180/I0000KAaL_KbXADs.jpg)
![Ypres-Ieper WW1 Battlefield, 1914-1918, Belgium. Langemark German Cemetery, Langemark,Ypres_Ieper, Belgium. February 2014<br />
The German Cemetery at Langemark, names of the young students and schoolboys carved into the wooden walls of the entrance to the cemetery.<br />
The German war cemetery of Langemark (formerly spelt 'Langemarck') is near the village of Langemark, part of the municipality of Langemark-Poelkapelle, in the Belgian province of West Flanders. More than 44,000 soldiers are buried here. The village was the scene of the first gas attacks by the German army, marking the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915.<br />
<br />
During the First Battle of Ypres (1914) in World War I, inexperienced German infantry suffered severe casualties when they made a futile frontal attack on allied positions near Langemark and were checked by experienced French infantry and British riflemen. Contrary to popular myth, only fifteen percent of the German soldiers involved in the Battle of Langemark were schoolboys and students. Legend has it that the German infantry sang the first stanza of what later (1919) became their national anthem "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles", as they charged.<br />
<br />
The cemetery, which evolved from a small group of graves from 1915, has seen numerous changes and extensions. It was dedicated in 1932. Today, visitors find a mass grave near the entrance. This comrades' grave contains 24,917 servicemen, including the Ace Werner Voss.[3] Between the oak trees, next to this mass grave, are another 10,143 soldiers (including 2 British soldiers killed in 1918). The 3,000 school students who were killed during the First Battle of Ypres are buried in a third part of the cemetery. At the rear of the cemetery is a sculpture of four mourning figures by Professor Emil Krieger. The group was added in 1956, and is said to stand guard over the fallen. The cemetery is maintained by the German War Graves Commission, the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge.](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000yyTkqcDdkXA/fill=/fit=180x180/I0000yyTkqcDdkXA.jpg)
![Ypres-Ieper WW1 Battlefield, 1914-1918, Site of Christmas Truce 1914, Saint-Yves (Saint-Yvon - Ploegsteert; Comines-Warneton in Belgium,Ypres_Ieper, Belgium. February 2014<br />
A cross and foortballs, left in a field at Saint-Yves (Saint-Yvon - Ploegsteert; Comines-Warneton in Belgium), to commemorate the site of the Christmas Truce. The text reads:<br />
"1914 – The Khaki Chum's Christmas Truce – 1999 – 85 Years – Lest We Forget"<br />
<br />
Information that follows from Wikipedia site :<br />
<br />
The Christmas truce (German: Weihnachtsfrieden; French: Trêve de Noël) was a series of widespread, unofficial ceasefires that took place along the Western Front around Christmas 1914, during World War I. Through the week leading up to Christmas, parties of German and British soldiers began to exchange seasonal greetings and songs between their trenches; on occasion, the tension was reduced to the point that individuals would walk across to talk to their opposite numbers bearing gifts. On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, many soldiers from both sides—as well as, to a lesser degree, from French units—independently ventured into "no man's land", where they mingled, exchanging food and souvenirs. As well as joint burial ceremonies, several meetings ended in carol-singing. Troops from both sides were also friendly enough to play games of football with one another.[1]<br />
<br />
The truce is often seen as a symbolic moment of peace and humanity amidst one of the most violent events of human history. It was not ubiquitous; in some regions of the front, fighting continued throughout the day, while in others, little more than an arrangement to recover bodies was made. The following year, a few units again arranged ceasefires with their opponents over Christmas, but the truces were not nearly as widespread as in 1914; this was, in part, due to strongly worded orders from the high commands of both sides prohibiting such fraternisation. In 1916, after the unprecedentedly bloody battles of the Somme and Verdun,](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000keOIEcQbar8/fill=/fit=180x180/I0000keOIEcQbar8.jpg)
![Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Sheffield Memorial Park. February 2014<br />
Seen Here: Memorial to Private Albert Bull of the 12th Yorks and Lancs who died on this spot on 1st of July ( the first day of the Somme battle ) and buried here until 1928, he was discovered and re buried in Serre Road No 2 Cemetery nearby. <br />
<br />
Sheffield Memorial Park on the Somme where there are many commemoration plaques and memorials to the 'Pals Brigades'; Groups of men who lived in the same street or worked together, signed up into the army together and died together as they attacked the fortified German positions at Serre on the northern flank of the Somme Battlefield. <br />
<br />
Caption information below from Wikipedia:<br />
<br />
Several of these battalions suffered heavy casualties during the Somme offensives of 1916. One of the most notable was the 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment, better known as the Accrington Pals. The Accrington Pals were ordered to attack Serre, the most northerly part of the main assault, on the opening day of the battle. The Accrington Pals were accompanied by Pals battalions drawn from Sheffield, Leeds, Barnsley and Bradford.[2] Of an estimated 700 Accrington Pals who took part in the attack, 235 were killed and 350 wounded within the space of twenty minutes.[3] Despite repeated attempts, Serre was not taken until February 1917, at which time the German forces had evacuated to the Hindenburg Line.](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000R9RKAFGGDqY/fill=/fit=180x180/I0000R9RKAFGGDqY.jpg)
![Verdun WW1 Battlefield site, Verdun-sur-Meuse, France. March 2014<br />
Seen here :<br />
The remains of Fort Douaumont on the Verdun Battlefield.<br />
Fort Douaumont (French Fort de Douaumont) was the largest and highest fort on the ring of 19 large defensive forts protecting the city of Verdun, France since the 1890s. However, by 1915 the French General Staff had concluded that even the best-protected forts of Verdun could not resist bombardments from the German 420 mm (16 in) Gamma guns. These newly deployed giant howitzers had easily taken several large Belgian forts out of action in August 1914. As a result, Fort Douaumont and other Verdun forts, being judged ineffective, had been partly disarmed and left virtually undefended since 1915. Consequently, on 25 February 1916, Fort Douaumont was entered and occupied without a fight by a small German raiding party comprising only 19 officers and 79 men. The easy fall of Fort Douaumont, only three days after the beginning of the Battle of Verdun, produced a deep shock in the French Army's command structure. It set the stage for the rest of a battle which lasted nine months, at enormous human costs. Douaumont was finally recaptured by three infantry divisions of the French Second Army, during the First Offensive Battle of Verdun on 24 October 1916. This event brought closure to the Battle of Verdun in 1916.[1]<br />
<br />
The Battle of Verdun lasted 9 months, 3 weeks and 6 days between 21 February and 20 december 1916. It was the longest and one of the most costly battles in human history; recent estimates increase the number of casualties to 976,000.<br />
<br />
Caption information below from wikipedia:<br />
The Battle of Verdun (Bataille de Verdun0, was fought from 21 February – 18 December 1916 during the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies, on hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France. The German Fifth Army attacked the defences of the Région Fortifiée de Verdun (RFV) and the Second Army on the right b](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000SeKxSuwnOcM/fill=/fit=180x180/I0000SeKxSuwnOcM.jpg)
![Ypres-Ieper WW1 Battlefield, 1914-1918, Belgium. Langemark German Cemetery, Langemark,Ypres_Ieper, Belgium. February 2014<br />
The German Cemetery at Langemark, sculpture of four mourning figures by Professor Emil Krieger.<br />
The German war cemetery of Langemark (formerly spelt 'Langemarck') is near the village of Langemark, part of the municipality of Langemark-Poelkapelle, in the Belgian province of West Flanders. More than 44,000 soldiers are buried here. The village was the scene of the first gas attacks by the German army, marking the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915.<br />
<br />
During the First Battle of Ypres (1914) in World War I, inexperienced German infantry suffered severe casualties when they made a futile frontal attack on allied positions near Langemark and were checked by experienced French infantry and British riflemen. Contrary to popular myth, only fifteen percent of the German soldiers involved in the Battle of Langemark were schoolboys and students. Legend has it that the German infantry sang the first stanza of what later (1919) became their national anthem "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles", as they charged.<br />
<br />
The cemetery, which evolved from a small group of graves from 1915, has seen numerous changes and extensions. It was dedicated in 1932. Today, visitors find a mass grave near the entrance. This comrades' grave contains 24,917 servicemen, including the Ace Werner Voss.[3] Between the oak trees, next to this mass grave, are another 10,143 soldiers (including 2 British soldiers killed in 1918). The 3,000 school students who were killed during the First Battle of Ypres are buried in a third part of the cemetery. At the rear of the cemetery is a sculpture of four mourning figures by Professor Emil Krieger. The group was added in 1956, and is said to stand guard over the fallen. The cemetery is maintained by the German War Graves Commission, the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge.](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000ySQ3aRZE5CY/fill=/fit=180x180/I0000ySQ3aRZE5CY.jpg)
![Verdun WW1 Battlefield site, Verdun-sur-Meuse, France. March 2014<br />
Seen here :<br />
The remains of Fort Douaumont on the Verdun Battlefield.<br />
Fort Douaumont (French Fort de Douaumont) was the largest and highest fort on the ring of 19 large defensive forts protecting the city of Verdun, France since the 1890s. However, by 1915 the French General Staff had concluded that even the best-protected forts of Verdun could not resist bombardments from the German 420 mm (16 in) Gamma guns. These newly deployed giant howitzers had easily taken several large Belgian forts out of action in August 1914. As a result, Fort Douaumont and other Verdun forts, being judged ineffective, had been partly disarmed and left virtually undefended since 1915. Consequently, on 25 February 1916, Fort Douaumont was entered and occupied without a fight by a small German raiding party comprising only 19 officers and 79 men. The easy fall of Fort Douaumont, only three days after the beginning of the Battle of Verdun, produced a deep shock in the French Army's command structure. It set the stage for the rest of a battle which lasted nine months, at enormous human costs. Douaumont was finally recaptured by three infantry divisions of the French Second Army, during the First Offensive Battle of Verdun on 24 October 1916. This event brought closure to the Battle of Verdun in 1916.[1]<br />
<br />
The Battle of Verdun lasted 9 months, 3 weeks and 6 days between 21 February and 20 december 1916. It was the longest and one of the most costly battles in human history; recent estimates increase the number of casualties to 976,000.<br />
<br />
Caption information below from wikipedia:<br />
The Battle of Verdun (Bataille de Verdun0, was fought from 21 February – 18 December 1916 during the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies, on hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France. The German Fifth Army attacked the defences of the Région Fortifiée de Verdun (RFV) and the Second Army on the right b](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000OQDy4OhiX0k/fill=/fit=180x180/I0000OQDy4OhiX0k.jpg)
![Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Sheffield Memorial Park. February 2014<br />
Seen Here: In memory of the Chorley Pals 'Y' Company.<br />
<br />
Sheffield Memorial Park on the Somme where there are many commemoration plaques and memorials to the 'Pals Brigades'; Groups of men who lived in the same street or worked together, signed up into the army together and died together as they attacked the fortified German positions at Serre on the northern flank of the Somme Battlefield. <br />
<br />
Caption information below from Wikipedia:<br />
<br />
Several of these battalions suffered heavy casualties during the Somme offensives of 1916. One of the most notable was the 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment, better known as the Accrington Pals. The Accrington Pals were ordered to attack Serre, the most northerly part of the main assault, on the opening day of the battle. The Accrington Pals were accompanied by Pals battalions drawn from Sheffield, Leeds, Barnsley and Bradford.[2] Of an estimated 700 Accrington Pals who took part in the attack, 235 were killed and 350 wounded within the space of twenty minutes.[3] Despite repeated attempts, Serre was not taken until February 1917, at which time the German forces had evacuated to the Hindenburg Line.](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000Rd0Hz9qOzUM/fill=/fit=180x180/I0000Rd0Hz9qOzUM.jpg)
![Somme WW1 Battlefield, July 1st-November 1916, France. Sheffield Memorial Park. February 2014<br />
Seen Here: Memorial to Private Albert Bull of the 12th Yorks and Lancs who died on this spot on 1st of July ( the first day of the Somme battle ) and buried here until 1928, when he was discovered and re buried in Serre Road No 2 Cemetery nearby. <br />
<br />
Sheffield Memorial Park on the Somme where there are many commemoration plaques and memorials to the 'Pals Brigades'; Groups of men who lived in the same street or worked together, signed up into the army together and died together as they attacked the fortified German positions at Serre on the northern flank of the Somme Battlefield. <br />
<br />
Caption information below from Wikipedia:<br />
<br />
Several of these battalions suffered heavy casualties during the Somme offensives of 1916. One of the most notable was the 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment, better known as the Accrington Pals. The Accrington Pals were ordered to attack Serre, the most northerly part of the main assault, on the opening day of the battle. The Accrington Pals were accompanied by Pals battalions drawn from Sheffield, Leeds, Barnsley and Bradford.[2] Of an estimated 700 Accrington Pals who took part in the attack, 235 were killed and 350 wounded within the space of twenty minutes.[3] Despite repeated attempts, Serre was not taken until February 1917, at which time the German forces had evacuated to the Hindenburg Line.](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000B6vaMMDniFs/fill=/fit=180x180/I0000B6vaMMDniFs.jpg)
