Thursday 29 August 2013

Battle of the Somme

Soldiers with the British Machine Gun Corps
wearing gas masks in 1916 during World War I's
first Battle of the Somme.

3 comments:

  1. And poison gas is unfortunately still an issue today, apparently, almost a century later.

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    1. I thought of Syria when I posted this. A very nasty weapon.

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  2. That was also my first thought; without the caption one can think these are Syrian rebels fighting Assad.

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