Officer going up to find positions for his guns

Scene on the Amiens-St Quentin Road. An officer on a motorbike, travelling along a muddy and deserted road. Once tree-lined, all that remains of the trees are splintered and lifeless trunks. The fields on either side of the road are flat and lifeless. It is a depressing and desolate scene.

 

Whilst many scenes were deliberately taken as propaganda, some, like this, manage to document the damaging effects of war on the French landscape.

 

[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE - Scene on the Amiens-St Quentin Road. Officer going up to find positions for his guns.']

 

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