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Photo of 2 Royal Engineers taken in December 1916, They are standing in a trench near Cléry-sur Somme. They have snow on them, one on the right smoking a pipe.
The reconquest of Cléry sur Somme by the French occurred on September 3, 1916.
The Somme Offensive of 1916 was one of the deadliest battles in all of human history.
After the Battle of the Ancre (13–18 November 1916), British attacks on the Somme front were stopped by the weather and military operations by both sides were mostly restricted to survival in the rain, snow, fog, mud fields, waterlogged trenches and shell-holes.
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Le Royal Engenieur aux tranchier Décember 1916 Soldats du génie anglais près clery-sur Somme
The Royal Engineers in trench December 1916 English engineering soldiers near clery-sur somme
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The Battle of the Somme also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and the French Third Republic against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the upper reaches of the river Somme in France. The battle was intended to hasten a victory for the Allies. More than three million men fought in the battle, of whom more than one million were either wounded or killed, making it one of the deadliest battles in all of human history.
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