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Image Not Available for View showing the slag heap which has changed hands so many times and a Boche communication trench
View showing the slag heap which has changed hands so many times and a Boche communication trench
Image Not Available for View showing the slag heap which has changed hands so many times and a Boche communication trench

View showing the slag heap which has changed hands so many times and a Boche communication trench

Creator Ernest Brooks (British)
CreatorPress Agency, The Central News Ltd
Date1917
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions17 × 21.5 cm (6 11/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
Credit LineAnonymous Gift, 2008
Category
    Object number2008/8230
    LocationNot currently on display

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    Ernest Brooks
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    Image Not Available for This German dug-out has been turned to good account by a brigade which has since established its headquarters here
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    Ernest Brooks
    1917
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for One of our soldiers being carried in. He has his hand up, is shoulding "I am not a German"
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    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Scene at a farm in Flanders - our men in their leisure moments enjoy haymaking with the inhabitants who are always sorry when Tommy has to leave for more serious duties
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    Ernest Brooks
    1917
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for The Battle of Flanders. Pulling forward a powerful British weapon that has already helped to force back the Huns
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    1917
    Photograph
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