British sappers digging a communications trench

Good website for photos.  Here’s an example http://www.gwpda.org/photos/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-546

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One may envisage this image as Montauban with a view down hill over the wrecked hedges back to Maricourt.  201st Field Squadron, Royal Engineers helped the Manchesters consolidate the village defenses.