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The First Day of the Somme - July 1st, 1916

Photographs reproduced by kind permission of the National Library of Scotland

  • General Haig
  • General Haig
  • Hawthorn Ridge mine, 1st July 1916
  • Mametz
  • Mametz attack
  • German graveyard
  • Big gun
  • Memorial unveiling at Beaumont Hamel, 1925
  • Destruction at the village of Montauban, France.
  • Memorial unveiling at Beaumont Hamel, 1925
  • Crater, Beaumont Hamel
  • A muddy trench
  • Mametz in ruins