Trench Warfare On The Western Front During The First World War

Trench Warfare On The Western Front During The First World War, Still from the British documentary film 'The Battle of the Somme'. The image is part of a sequence purportedly showing British soldiers moving forward through wire at the start of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916.Although this scene is now generally considered to have been staged for the camera, possibly at a Trench Mortar School well behind the lines, this image and the film sequence from which it is derived, have regularly been used to represent British troops 'going over the top' at the start of an assault on the Western Front, 1 July 1916. (Photo by Geoffrey Malins/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images)