10.5287/BODLEIAN83T5.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
The First World War 1914-1918: The Western Front: The Somme Offensive 1916
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
nsJvlaZm37723
1916-11-01/1916-11-30
2011-11-30 21:54:16.968719
2011
CXTIWMPHOq2041.jpg
165 mm
216 mm
Photograph
A skeleton, its arm across its neck, of a German soldier at Beaumont Hamel. Britain lost her army of volunteers in the trench battles north of the River Somme in late 1916. Total British, French and German casualties were in the region of 1,200,000 killed, wounded or captured.