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Shellfire on the Western Front

Shellfire blighted everything it touched.

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  • Poppy field, village of Pas, Somme 1918
    Battle of the Somme

Keywords

WW1
western front
battle of the somme
artillery
Credit

H. Stewart, The New Zealand Division 1916–1919: a popular history based on official records, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1921

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'Shellfire on the Western Front', URL: /media/photo/artillery-on-the-somme-shellfire, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 6-Mar-2015

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