Members of the 38th Battalion in Dog Trench near Guillemont Farm, in which they were held by ...

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Accession Number E03478
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Wilkins, George Hubert
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Albert Combles Area, Guillemont
Date made 29 September 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Members of the 38th Battalion in Dog Trench near Guillemont Farm, in which they were held by machine gun fire during the attack on the Hindenburg Line, near Bony. Identified, left to right: 5918 Private (Pte) Binion; 967 Sergeant A. E. Pegler MM; 3020 Corporal H. Amiet MM; Captain C. H. Peters MC; unidentified soldier (almost completely obscured by Buckland); 763 Company Sergeant Major (CSM) R. J. Buckland MM (smoking a pipe); 6217 Pte G. Bain.