#ovillers

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

BATTLEFIELD EUROPE -- TOTAL WAR 1916.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a British Vickers machine gun crew wearing PH-type anti-gas helmets. Near Ovillers during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916. The gunner is wearing a padded waistcoat, enabling him to carry the machine gun barrel. 📸: John Warwick Brooke (1886-1929).

PIC #2: An alternate, rear view of a British Vickers machine gun crew wearing PH-type anti-gas helmets. Near Ovillers during the Battle of the Somme, July 1916. The gunner is wearing a padded waistcoat, enabling him to carry the machine gun barrel. Both men have spoons tucked into their puttees.

Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vickers_machine_gun_crew_with_gas_masks_rear_view.jpg

[thedeadofflandersfields]

Worcestershire Regiment sentry peering through a trench loop-hole. Ovillers, August 1916. Photographer Lt. John Warwick Brooke.

[philoursmars]

Encore une mini-série sans logique.

- où ? je ne sais plus...peut-être à Mont-de-Marsan

- forêt de Marchiennes

- Monchy-le-Preux 

- Ovillers (Picardie)

[poor-bloody-infantry]

© IWM (Q 1387) British troops fusing Stokes mortar shells at Ovillers, September 1916.