British soldiers attacking the Hindenburg Line, World War I Product:Postcard by Wilhelm Waetzoldt

by Wilhelm Waetzoldt

and a sash which would have been white purple and green

Acland holds a walking stick in his right hand and a paper in his left

'Muscicapa fusca'

Map of London and surrounding counties

British soldiers attacking the Hindenburg Line, World War I Product:Postcard by Wilhelm WaetzoldtBritish soldiers attacking the Hindenburg Line, World War I, 1917 1918. Soldiers bombing Germans out of their deep dug out with grenades. The Hindenburg Line was a vast system of defences built on the Western Front by the Germans in the winter of 1916 1917. It extended from Lens in the north to beyond Verdun and was believed by the German High Command to be impregnable. In fact British and Newfoundland forces using tanks briefly broke through the line