Historic WWI Photo – Lunchtime In The Trenches, 1916
Lunchtime in the trenches, June 1916. PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA000157
Legion Magazine
January 31, 2012
Lunchtime in the trenches, June 1916. PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA000157
Enjoying a smoke in a trench opposite Vimy Ridge. PHOTO: LEGION MAGAZINE ARCHIVES
A soldier scrambles down a communications trench as a shell bursts only a few feet away, August 1916. PHOTO: HENRY KNOBEL, LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA000742
A high water table or hard ground spelled shallow trenches on the Western Front. These Canadian soldiers occupy a support trench, May 1917. PHOTO: LIBRARY
Cold, muddied and tested by battle, Canadian soldiers take a breather, 1917. PHOTO: LEGION MAGAZINE ARCHIVES
The scene at Valcartier, Que., 1914. PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—C036116
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