Ready for the great Somme push, officer and signallers keep a sharp look-out over the Sausage valley.

Ready for the great Somme push, officer and signallers keep a sharp look-out over the Sausage valley.

Photograph

Realistic Travels

Ready for the great Somme push, officer and signallers keep a sharp look-out over the Sausage valley.

From The Great War


ca. 1916
Gelatin silver print, printed later
Each image: 8 x 7.7 cm
Mount: 9 x 18 cm
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2005
2005.0805.0028
Inscriptions recto (stamped in black ink): REALISTIC TRAVELS / LONDON-CAPETOWN-BOMBAY-MELBOURNE-TORONTO / 47 / BY ROYAL COMMAND OF THEIR IMPERIAL MAJESTIES / KING GEORGE V AND QUEEN MARY / Realistic / (c) / Travels / Ready for the great Somme push, officer and signal- / lers keep a sharp look-out over the Sausage valley.

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