Battle of Albert, 21 August 1918

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101 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Battle of Albert, 21 August 1918. 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. 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. Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps dressing a German prisoner's wounds at an Advanced Dressing Station, Achiet-le-Petit, 21 August 1918. German MG 08/15 machine guns (Spandau), captured at Bucquoy by the 37th Division, 21 August 1918.

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101 YEARS AGO TODAY:  The Battle of Albert, 22 August 1918.  Lightly wounded British soldier of 11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, with German prisoners carrying casualty on a stretcher through ruins of Albert.  A wrecked section of railway track in Albert, 22 August 1918.  Stretcher bearers bringing a wounded man on a wheeled stretcher to an advanced dressing station in a wrecked building in Albert, 22 August 1918, following the village's capture by 18th Division at the start of the Hundred Days Offensive.