Collection related to the service of 704 Ernest Charles Barnes

Accession Number C00468
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Barnes, Ernest Charles
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Albert, Becourt Wood
Date made July 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Horses of the 102nd Howitzer Battery have a drink at the Battery's water troughs in the Somme. The small sandbagged structures are latrines for the horsemen. (From the collection of 704 Driver Ernest Charles Barnes who served with the 1st Field Artillery Brigade, 21st Howitzer Brigade and 2nd Field Artillery Brigade.)