Image:Cheshire Regiment trench Somme 1916.jpg

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English: A British trench near the Albert-Bapaume road at Ovillers-La Boisselle, July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. The men are from A Company, 11th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment.


Photograph by Lt. J. W. Brooke.
Imperial War Museum catalogue number Q 3990.

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English: British trench near the AlbertBapaume road at Ovillers-la-Boisselle, July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme.

Deutsch: Schlacht an der Somme: Britischer Schützengraben im Juli 1916 bei Ovillers-la-Boisselle an der Straße zwischen Albert und Bapaume


Deutsch: Schlacht an der Somme: Britischer Schützengraben im Juli 1916 bei Ovillers-la-Boisselle an der Straße zwischen Albert und Bapaume

English: British trench near the AlbertBapaume road at Ovillers-la-Boisselle, July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme.

Svenska: En brittisk skyttegrav vid Ovillers-La Boisselle i juli 1916 under slaget vid Somme.

zh-hans: 1916年索姆河战役时,法国Albert-Bapaume地区的英军战壕

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