Cheshire Regiment Trench

ca. 1916, Somme

Soldiers of A Company, 11th Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment, occupy a captured German trench at Ovillers-la-Boisselle on the Somme. In this photograph, one man keeps sentry duty, looking over the parados and using an improvised fire step cut into the back slope of the trench, while his comrades rest.

Image courtesy of the Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection, photo by Lieutenant John Warwick Brooke, catalog no. 3990.