List of Illustrations

1. A platoon of the 7th Bedfords (18th Division) marching through a French villlage shortly before the start of the Somme offensive, 1916. (IWM: Q 79478)

2. Troops of the Tyneside Irish Brigade (34th Division) advance from the Tara–Usna line to attack La Boisselle, 1 July 1916. (IWM: Q 53)

3. A British 18-pounder field gun in action in the Carnoy valley, near Montauban, 30 July 1916. (IWM: Q 4065)

4. Men of the Border Regiment in ‘funk holes’ near Thiepval, August 1916. (IWM: Q 872)

5. British support troops moving up under fire to attack Ginchy, 9 September 1916. (IWM: Q 1302)

6. View from close to the Albert–Bapaume road near La Boisselle, looking along a captured German trench towards Ovillers, September 1916. (IWM: Q 4123)

7. A Mark I tank crossing a British trench as it moves forward to participate in the fight for Thiepval, September 1916. (IWM: Q 2486)

8. Portrait drawing by Francis Dodd of Lieutenant-General Sir Ivor Maxse in 1917. (IWM: ART 1814)

9. Lieutenant-Colonel (later Brigadier-General) Frank Maxwell VC.

10. The axis of the 18th Division’s advance towards Thiepval on 26 September 1916. The track in the centre marks the boundary between the 53rd and 54th Brigades. (Michael Stedman)

11. A congested road at Fricourt in October 1916. (IWM: Q 5794)

12. A working party in the rain near St Pierre Divion, November 1916. (IWM: Q 4602)

13. Brigadier-General T.W. Glasgow (left), GOC 13th Australian Brigade, with his staff at Blangy-Tronville, 25 April 1918. (IWM: E(AUS) 2135)

14. Villers-Bretonneux, as seen from the German lines in 1918. (IWM: E (AUS) 2812)

15. Brigadier-General H.E. ‘Pompey’ Elliott, GOC 15th Australian Brigade, in 1918. (IWM: E (AUS) 2855)

16. The German A7V tank ‘Mephisto’ after its capture in Monument Wood, near Villers-Bretonneux, by the 26th Battalion AIF in July 1918. (IWM: E (AUS) 2876)

17. Brigadier-General A.J. McCulloch, the commander of the 64th Brigade (21st Division) in August 1918. (Royal Highland Fusiliers Museum)

18. Major-General H.W. Higginson, GOC 12th (Eastern) Division from April 1918 to March 1919.

19. Lieutenant-Colonel W.R.A. ‘Bob’ Dawson, who commanded the 6th Royal West Kents in the Hundred Days.

20. Mark V tanks moving up near Bellicourt on 29 September 1918 for the assault on the Hindenburg Line. (IWM: Q 9364)