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The site of the Front Line on July 1st 1916 (the German front line was to the right of the crossroads and the Allies to the left). Major Kent and his men charged the enemy trenches from here and were mown down. The telegraph pole to the right marks the site of the German strong point that caused so many casualties during British attacks on July 1st, it was finally destroyed by the 1st Welsh Fusiliers late that evening. The photograph is taken from the point of the Sunken Road which led up the hill to the Bois Francais area.

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Identifier

5678.jpg | CXTPROPHOTOS - 64.jpg

Subject

Landscape | Somme

Creator

Lindsay, Kate

Date

9th July 2008

Date Created

09/07/2008

Spatial

Fricourt, Somme

Source

Photograph

Medium

Digital image

Type

Photograph

Contributor

Kate Lindsay

Rights

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford

Repository Name

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Repository Address

13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN, UK

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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