© IWM (Q 6963)
Second Battle of the Somme 1918. 
German shell burst showing two soldiers ducking in foreground (possibly official cameraman J B McDowell and his assistant). 
Near Courcelles, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 6964)
Second Battle of the Somme. 
German shell bursts. 
Note a soldier on right, ducking. 
Near Courcelles, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 6965)
Second Battle of the Somme. 
German shell bursts near Courcelles, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 6966)
Battle of Albert. 
Troops of the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, attending a wounded soldier during the attack on Moyenneville, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 6967)
Capture of Moyenneville. 
German prisoners taking back wounded crossing the old German second line, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 6968)
Battle of Albert. 
German prisoners bringing in wounded soldiers and captured machine-guns. 
Near Courcelles, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 6973)
Battle of Albert. 
Troops of the 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars waiting under a bank ready to move forward. 
Near Courcelles, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 6974)
Battle of Albert. 
Troops of the 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars moving forward. 
Near Courcelles, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 6975)
Battle of Albert. 
Shell bursting near the troops of the 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars waiting to go forward. 
Near Courcelles, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 6976)
Battle of Albert. 
Troops of the 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars caught by a shell-burst near Courcelles, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 6977)
Battle of Albert. 
Shell bursting near the troops of the 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars waiting to move forward. 
Near Courcelles, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 6978)
Attack on Moyenneville. 
Troops of the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, in the old German second line. 
Prisoners coming in. 
Note tanks in distance. 
21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 6979)
Attack on Moyenneville. 
Troops of the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, in the old German second line. 
German prisoners and wounded coming in. 
Note tanks in distance, 21 August 1918. 
(Note Lewis gun mounted for use against aircraft).

 

 

© IWM (Q 6980)
Battle of Albert. 
Stretcher-bearers of the Royal Army Medical Corps bringing in wounded. 
Note discarded equipment, etc. in the abandoned trench in foreground. 
Near Courcelles, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 6981)
Attack on Moyenville. 
German prisoners and the escort of the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, resting on their way back. 
Note camouflage colouring painted on German steel helmets. 
Near Courcelles, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 6982)
Capture of Moyenneville. 
German prisoners taking back wounded crossing the old German second line, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 6983)
Attack on Moyenneville. 
A Scots Guardsman giving wounded German prisoner a drink. 
Near Courcelles, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 6984)
Attack on Moyenneville. 
Troops of the Grenadier Guards consolidating the former German second line. 
Near Courcelles, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 6985)
Attack on Moyenneville. 
A dead German soldier outside his dug out. Near Courcelles, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 6986)
Attack on Moyenneville. 
A dead German soldier outside his dug out. 
Near Courcelles, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 7293)
Battle of Albert. 
British troops, blinded by gas, assisting each other to the dressing station at Croisilles, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 11214)
Prisoner stretcher-bearers bringing in a wounded man in a carrier, improvised from gas piping and a water-proof sheet, near Achiet-le-Petit, 21 August 1918, during the Battle
of Albert at the start of the Hundred Days Offensive. 
The British soldier, from 5th Division, is bringing in a captured machine-gun.

© IWM (Q 11215)
Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps dressing a German prisoner's wounds at an Advanced Dressing Station, Achiet-le-Petit, 21 August 1918, during the Battle of Albert at the
start of the Hundred Days Offensive.

 

 

© IWM (Q 11216)
Captain Benjamin H Geary VC, 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment being carried in on a stretcher by prisoner bearers at Achiet-le-Petit, 21 August 1918 during the Battle of
Albert, at the start of the Hundred Days Offensive.

 

 

© IWM (Q 11217) 
Men of the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment inspects captured German positions on Achiet-le-Petit Spur, 21 August 1918, during the Battle of Albert at the start of the
Hundred Days Offensive.

 

 

© IWM (Q 11218)
Railway near Achiet-le-Petit, 21 August 1918, destroyed during the Battle of Albert, by British gun-fire as part of Advance of the British Third Army in the Hundred Days
Offensive. 
There had been stubborn fighting in this area on this day. 
The body of a German casualty can be seen in the foreground.

 

 

© IWM (Q 11219)
An escort of the South Staffordshire Regiment bringing German prisoners through Bucquoy, 21 August 1918, following the Battle of Albert at the start of the Hundred Days
Offensive.
A British soldier of 5th Division using a range-finder at Achiet-le-Petit, 21 August 1918 during the Battle of Albert, the opening phase of the Hundered Days Offensive.

 

 

© IWM (Q 11220)
Cavalry resting their horses in the churchyard at Achiet-le-Petit, 21 August 1918, during the Battle of Albert, at the start of the Hundred Days Offensive. Despatch riders'
motorcycles can be seen in the foreground, while to the right infantry watch as an allied aircraft flies overhead.

 

 

© IWM (Q 11223)
A British soldier of 5th Division using a range-finder at Achiet-le-Petit, 21 August 1918 during the Battle of Albert, the opening phase of the Hundered Days Offensive.

 

 

© IWM (Q 11224)
British soldiers of the 5th Division examine German heavy ammunition in wicker cases abandoned in a shell hole Achiet-le-Petit, 21 August 1918, following the Battle of Albert,
the opening phase of the Hundered Days Offensive.

 

 

© IWM (Q 11225)
An early morning photograph at Achiet-le-Petit of some of the first prisoners captured during the Battle of Albert, seen with an escort from the New Zealander Division, 21
August 1918. 
The battle was part of the 1918 Battle of the Somme, at the commencement of the Hundred Days Offensive.

 

 

© IWM (Q 11226)
Some of the first prisoners captured during the Battle of Albert, seen with an escort from the New Zealander Division, being brought into Achiet-le-Petit, 21 August 1918. 
The battle was part of the 1918 Battle of the Somme, at the commencement of the Hundred Days Offensive.

 

 

© IWM (Q 11227)
Two soldiers from the New Zealand Division seen leaving a much damaged ammunition dug-out in the captured German lines at Achiet-le-Petit. following the Battle of Albert, 21
August 1918. The battle was part of the 1918 Battle of the Somme, during the commencement of the Hundred Days Offensive.

 

 

© IWM (Q 11504)
Battle of Albert. Troops of the 12th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment (5th Division) advancing in artillery formation parallel to the Bucquoy - Achiet-le-Petit road to
capture Achiet, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 11754)
Battle of Albert. German MG 08/15 machine guns (Spandau), captured at Bucquoy by the 37th Division, 21 August 1918.

 

 

© IWM (Q 11755)
Battle of Albert. An American doctor examining walking wounded of the 37th Division passing back along a road at Bucquoy, 21 August 1918.