The Battle Of The Somme, Still from the British film “The Battle of the Somme”. The image is part of a sequence introduced by a caption reading “British Tommies rescuing a comrade under shell fire. (This man died 30 minutes after reaching the trenches)”.The scene is generally accepted as having been filmed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916. This image, and the film sequence from which it is derived, has been widely published to evoke the experience of trench warfare, the heroism and suffering of the ordinary soldier, and the huge casualties sustained by the British Army during the initial assault on German lines. In spite of considerable research, the identity of the rescuer remains unconfirmed. The casualty appears to be wearing the shoulder flash of 29th Division, 1 July 1916. (Photo by Geoffrey Malins/IWM via Getty Images)





Gas-masked men of the British Machine Gun Corps with a Vickers machine gun during the first battle of the Somme, 1916. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)





Men eating their rations during a lull in fighting in the Ancre Valley in October 1916. The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, took place during the First World War between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on either side of the river Somme in France. The battle saw the British Expeditionary Force mount a joint offensive, with the French Army against the German Army, which had occupied large areas of France since its invasion of the country in August 1914. The Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the war; by the time fighting paused in late autumn 1916, the forces involved had suffered more than 1 million casualties, making it one of the bloodiest military operations ever recorded. (Photo by Camera Press/IWM)





British troops go over the top of the trenches, 1916. (Photo by PopperPhoto)





A field kitchen near Hamel in November 1916. Wounded British soldiers are given food before being taken to hospitals. (Photo by Camera Press/IWM)





Two British machine gunners open fire with their Lewis gun on a German-held stronghold at the start of the Battle of the Somme in July 1916. (Photo by Camera Press/IWM)





British troops sort through the belongings of German prisoners in a trench, with articles being placed in an empty sand bag, 1916. (Photo by EMPICS Sports Photo Agency)





British troops coming out of the trenches Guillemont, Battle of the Somme, 1916. (Photo by Topham Picturepoint)





A British tank was captured by German troops on the battlefield near Albert (Somme), France, in 1916. (Photo by Berliner Verlag/Archiv)





First World War British soldiers in their “home” on the Somme, 1916. (Photo by Topham Picturepoint)





A British Grenadier Guardsman keeps watch on “No-Man's land” as his comrades sleep in a captured German trench at Ovillers, near Albert, during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. (Photo by EMPICS Sports Photo Agency)





Wounded British and German troops in the streets of St Quentin, France, after the Second Battle of the Somme, 22nd March 1918. (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Getty Images)





The Western Front During The First World War: The Battle Of The Somme, 1916, Still from the film “Battle of the Somme”: British troops go forward in “No Man's Land”, August 1916. (Photo by IWM via Getty Images)





Open air cookery in a steel helmet near Miraumont-le-Grand, 1916. (Photo by PhotograFix/mediadrumworld.com)





Clearing the way for our advancing troops, 1916. (Photo by PhotograFix/mediadrumworld.com)





Some jolly gunners and their pet, 1916. (Photo by PhotograFix/mediadrumworld.com)





Horse laden with trench boots on the Somme Front, 1916. (Photo by PhotograFix/mediadrumworld.com)





A Boche prisoner, wounded and muddy, coming in on the 13th. (Photo by PhotograFix/mediadrumworld.com)





Victorious British and French troops capture the ruins of St.Pierre Division on November 13th 1916. (Photo by Camera Press/IWM)