August 9th Photos: Malard Wood, Chipilly Ridge
© IWM Q 48367 A new tractor of the 28th Division being used for hauling long range guns at St. Gilles, 9 August 1918.
© IWM Q 6922 British soldier examining captured German mortars. Malard Wood, 9 August 1918.
© IWM Q 6923 British soldier examining captured German mortars. Malard Wood, 9 August 1918.
© IWM Q 6924 Gunners of the Royal Horse Artillery RHA examining a captured German 77mm field gun and Maxim machine gun. Malard Wood, 9 August 1918.
© IWM Q 6925 Gunners of the Royal Horse Artillery RHA examining a captured German 77mm field gun and Maxim machine gun. Malard Wood, 9 August 1918.
© IWM Q 6926 Captured German Maxim machine gun. Malard Wood, 9 August 1918.
© IWM Q 6927 Captured German Maxim machine gun and a British soldier resting at the post. Note steps leading to dug-out. Malard Wood, 9 August 1918.
© IWM Q 6931 Gunners of the Royal Horse Artillery RHA examining a captured German 77mm field gun and Maxim machine gun. Malard Wood, 9 August 1918.
© IWM Q 6932 Gunners of the Royal Horse Artillery RHA examining a captured German 77mm field gun and Maxim machine gun. Malard Wood, 9 August 1918. Note machine-gun on trails.
© IWM Q 9175 Capture of the Chipilly Ridge by the 58th London Division. RAMC stretcher bearers lowering a stretcher case into an abandoned trench serving as a regimental aid post. Near Albert, 9 August 1918.
© IWM Q 9176 Capture of the Chipilly Ridge by the 58th London Division. Soldiers sleeping in a trench left well 'behind' by the advance. Near Albert, 9 August 1918.
© IWM Q 9177 Capture of the Chipilly Ridge by the 58th London Division. RAMC personnel giving a wounded man water from a petrol tin at a regimental aid post in an abandoned trench. Near Albert, 9 August 1918.
© IWM Q 9178 German prisoners arriving at a temporary POW camp with mounted military police escort. Near Amiens, 9 August 1918.
© IWM Q 9179 German prisoners at a temporary POW camp near Amiens, 9 August 1918.
© IWM Q 9189 Capture of the Chipilly Ridge by the 58th London Division. RAMC personnel giving a wounded man water from a petrol tin at a regimental aid post in an abandoned trench. Near Albert, 9 August 1918.
© IWM Q 9190 Capture of the Chipilly Ridge by the 58th London Division. Royal Engineers and infantry of the Division in reserve, resting in a trench near Albert, 9 August 1918.
© IWM Q 9191 Capture of the Chipilly Ridge by the 58th London Division. Signallers of the Royal Field Artillery using heliographs in a German trench, captured on the previous day. Near Albert, 9 August 1918.
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