Soldiers of 'A' Company, 11th Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment, occupy a captured German trench at Ovillers-la-Boisselle on the Somme. In this photograph one man keeps sentry duty, looking over the parados and using an improvised fire step cut into the back slope of the trench, while his comrades rest.

Description: Soldiers of 'A' Company, 11th Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment, occupy a captured German trench at Ovillers-la-Boisselle on the Somme. In this photograph one man keeps sentry duty, looking over the parados and using an improvised fire step cut into the back slope of the trench, while his comrades rest.
Creator: John Warwick Brooke (Lieutenant)
Date: July 1916
Century: 20th century
Decade material covers: 1910s
Type: Photograph
Subject: Western Front
Figures: Trenches
War: First World War
Army: Great Britain
Battle: Battle of the Somme
Contemporary Country: France
Repository: Imperial War Museums
Collection in Repository: Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection
Repository Item Record: Full record with image
Rights: With permission from the Imperial War Museums
Village: Ovillers-la-Boisselle

Media: Soldiers of 'A' Company, 11th Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment, occupy a captured German trench