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| Picture No | 10219705 |
| Date | 1916 |
| Description | The entrance to a captured German dug-out |
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The staircase and entrance to a German dug-out captured by the British army during the Somme offensive in July 1916. Such shelters were often highly elaborate and sometimes sunk thirty to forty feet deep, making them largely immune to Allied artillery attack.
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| Source | Photograph in 'The Illustrated London News', 7 October 1916, page 421 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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