Vickers machine gun team in gas masks, near Ovillers on the Somme, 1916
photograph, photograph
Accession Number
NAM.1952-01-33-55-47
Description
A Vickers machine gun team from the Machine Gun Corps (MGC) wearing PH Type anti-gas helmets in action, firing into a German communication trench near Ovillers, July 1916. Official photograph associated with World War One, Western Front (1914-1918). From a group of 550 photographs, compiled by Lord Henry Seymour Rawlinson while Commander in Chief in India, 1916 (c)-1919.
Events
Somme, Battle of the, 1916 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)
Units
Associated collection
