Courcelette: After the Battle

Images of Courcelette and area after the Canadian Engagement during September 1916.

© IWM (Q 1385)
Distant view of the village of Courcelette, September 1916.

© IWM (CO 859)
The Battle of Flers Courcelette 15 – 22 September: The ruins of the Sugar Refinery in Courcelette.

© IWM (CO 775)
German dead in a trench captured by Canadian troops during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette.

© IWM (Q 1208)
The Battle of Flers-Courcelette. The dawn sky is lit by the bombardment before the assault on Thiepval.

© IWM (CO 811)
Canadian wounded being taken to a Dressing Station on a horse-drawn light railway.

© IWM (E(AUS) 5)
The shattered remains of the German strong point of Mouquet Farm.