Page 15 - History of War - Issue 30-16

Above: A pack horse loaded with trench boots
near Beaumont-Hamel, November 1916

Illustration: Jean-Michel Girard – The Art Agency FLERS-COURCELETTE with a shell hole clearly visible

A Mark I tank of C Company,
on the side, ditched north of
Bouleaux Wood

Though 150 were intended to make their debuts on the battleield, only around
32 Mark I tanks arrived in working order for this attack. Though both the villages
of Flers and Courcelette were eventually secured, the attack did not achieve the
great breakthrough that was hoped for.

Below: Wounded
prisoners are escorted
to the rear after the
Battle of Thiepval Ridge