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The flammenwerfer. German experiment with liquid fire which later decimated the troops at Hooge (Imperial War Museum)
A ration dump in Sanctuary Wood. The notice board reads, ‘No road by daylight’ (Imperial War Museum)
Part of the line in Sanctuary Wood, known as the appendix, where it jutted towards the German line (Imperial War Museum)
Alex Rule of U Company, 4th Gordon Highlanders, lay wounded in a dug-out much like this one after the fight for the crater at Hooge
Captain Agius’s reconnaissance report and sketch of the infamous ‘Duck’s Bill’ prior to the subsidiary attack on 25 September
Loos. British bombardment on the German line beyond the newly dug assembly trenches. The long lines of glistening white chalk gave the enemy ample warning of the attack (Imperial War Museum)
The Loos battlefield from the British front line (Imperial War Museum)
Loos. Looking across from the British line the most prominent landmark on the front was the pithead at Loos. The troops nicknamed it Tower Bridge (seen here before the battle with the Loos Crassier in front and the village below) (Imperial War Museum)
Loos. During the battle. ‘Tower Bridge had caught it badly: loose iron girders creaked and clanked above the heads of the Northumberland Fusiliers shivering in a field not far away’ (Imperial War Museum)
Carnage on the Loos road. ‘I can’t describe it! It was just a mass of holes, and debris and dead men and horses lying everywhere. Our transport had been shelled – knocked out!’ Harry Fellowes, 12th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (Imperial War Museum)
An appeal to laggards
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