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English: Soldiers standing in mud, France. The picture has been taken from the end of a ditch facing a large group of soldiers who tail away. The soldiers in the background are all lined up, carrying spades and waiting to start work. The men at the front of the picture are bunched into a group. They are up to their knees in the thick mud contained in the bottom of the ditch. Two of the men are smoking pipes and another younger boy is wearing a balaclava.

The problems the mud on the front line caused during World War I are notorious. This was combated by the use of duckboards, digging mud out and raising everything off the floor slightly.
[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON THE FRONT IN FRANCE. A scene in the mud.']

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  • World War One official British photographs
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  • War
  • Military Photo Pool
  • The Great War 1914 - 1918
  • The British Military
  • The Great War Archive Flickr Group
  • British Army
  • Vintage Photos of Men Smoking Pipes
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  • trench
  • pipes
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  • national library of scotland
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  • First World War
Camera location46° 42′ 44.81″ N, 1° 43′ 05.95″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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current10:06, 13 January 2022Thumbnail for version as of 10:06, 13 January 20222,266 × 1,585 (1.74 MB)Ich (talk | contribs)Cropped 9 % horizontally, 17 % vertically using CropTool with lossless mode.
11:51, 16 November 2016Thumbnail for version as of 11:51, 16 November 20162,500 × 1,913 (2.12 MB) (talk | contribs)National Library of Scotland, Set 72157624150609895, ID 3011979313, Original title Scene in the mud

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