Ceaseless rain and shellfire had also destroyed most of the natural drainage system around Passchendaele, making it very d [...] |
Canadians take a break in a captured German trench during the Battle of Hill 70 in August 1917. The soldiers on the left a [...] |
Canadian troops inspect a captured German gun position near Lens, France in September 1917. Its concrete construction help [...] |
German shells bursting on Canadian positions at Lens, France in June 1917. In the foreground, a Canadian gun pit is camouf [...] |
Canadian soldiers used this ruined house west of Lens to shelter their water tanks. From here, water would be carried forw [...] |
In this striking nighttime photograph taken behind Canadian lines at Vimy Ridge, a British naval gun fires in support of t [...] |
The Canadians captured more than 4,000 Germans during the Battle of Vimy Ridge. In this photograph, the soldiers in the so [...] |
Canadian medical officers (with the Red Cross emblems on the soldiers at right and to the left rear of the photo) use Germ [...] |
A German machine-gun emplacement of reinforced concrete on the crest of Vimy Ridge, and the Canadians who seized it. CWM 1 [...] |
Canadians of the 29th Infantry Battalion advance across No Man's Land through the German barbed wire during the Battle of [...] |
This photograph, taken after the capture of Vimy Ridge, looks east over the Douai Plain. The vantage point occupied by the [...] |
British tank crossing German trench at Vimy Ridge. All eight of the tanks available to the Canadians at Vimy broke down or [...] |
This aerial photograph illustrates the major trench lines around an unknown sector on Vimy Ridge. The large craters, some [...] |
Medical orderlies tend to the wounded in a trench during the Battle of Courcelette in mid-September 1916. The medical orde [...] |
A lone soldier stands atop the remains of the sugar factory south of Courcelette on the Somme. Several platoons of Canadia [...] |
Prisoners were often pressed into carrying the wounded off the battlefield, as shown by this photograph taken during the 1 [...] |
Prisoners were often pressed into carrying the wounded off the battlefield, as shown by this photograph taken during the 1 [...] |
This photograph shows explosions from a British artillery barrage on the Somme battlefield. There are numerous explosions [...] |
The zig-zag lines on the left are communication trenches leading back towards the rear areas in this October 1916 photogra [...] |
This tank only managed to advance about 100 metres into No Man's Land before it became mired in the mud and had to be aban [...] |
From 15 to 20 September 1916, the Canadians captured and held the village of Courcelette. During that time, they took 1,04 [...] |
Aerial photograph of a gas attack on the Somme battlefield using metal canisters of liquid gas. When the canisters were op [...] |
The body of a dead German soldier lies near the entrance to his dugout. While the entrance is intact, the sides of the tre [...] |
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