‘Our troops make use of a Jerry dugout captured by the Great Allied Advance at...

‘Our troops make use of a Jerry dugout captured by the Great Allied Advance at Bapaume’, August 1918. Stereoscopic photograph, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), 1918. Bapaume had been devastated during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The town had been a target for the British on the first day of the offensive, but it was not liberated until the Germans withdrew to the Hindenburg Line in February-March 1917. The Germans then reoccupied the town during their Spring Offensive of March 1918. Bapaume was finally liberated for good by the New Zealanders on 29 August 1918. From a collection of 96 stereoscopic photographs entitled ‘The Great War’ including the official series.