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Front trench, showing the Lewis gun ready to deal with Boche
Front trench, showing the Lewis gun ready to deal with Boche
In this photograph, a machine-gun crew are standing in a front-line trench with a Lewis gun. The outer edge of the trench, to the left, is sandbagged to head height. The Lewis gun is lying across the back of the trench, towards the photographer, so it is not in firing position. The Lewis gun was used as the main British Army light machine gun from 1915. The derogatory term for a German, 'Boche'…
Subject
- Bags (containers)
- Field fortifications
- Machine guns
- Military personnel
- Sand
- Trenches
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Subject
- Bags (containers)
- Field fortifications
- Machine guns
- Military personnel
- Sand
- Trenches
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Rights
- Available under Creative Commons license; Attribution, Non-commercial, ShareAlike
Issue date
- 2005
- 1914 - 1920
- 1914/1920
- 2005
Identifier
- 74549278
Extent
- 1 online resource
Is part of
- http://data.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Collection/a1219
Year
- 2005
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-04-06T13:22:53.856Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-05-31T08:46:14.871Z