Flers-Courcelette: the battlefield.

Stark reminders of the horror of war.

Photographs from Lt.William Ivor Castle, Canadian Official Photographer.

© IWM (CO 859) The Battle of Flers Courcelette 15 - 22 September: The ruins of the Sugar Refinery in Courcelette.
© 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 (CO 775) German dead in a trench captured by Canadian troops during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette.

 

© IWM (Q 190) Battle of Flers-Courcelette. Officers observing from an old German front line trench, 15th September 1916.
© IWM (Q 190) Battle of Flers-Courcelette. Officers observing from an old German front line trench, 15th September 1916.

 

© IWM (Q 195) View of the battlefield between Flers and Martinpuich, 15th September 1916.
© IWM (Q 195) View of the battlefield between Flers and Martinpuich, 15th September 1916.

 

© IWM (CO 811) The Battle of Flers Courcelette 15 - 22 September: Canadian wounded being taken to a Dressing Station on a horse-drawn light railway.
© IWM (CO 811) The Battle of Flers Courcelette 15 – 22 September: Canadian wounded being taken to a Dressing Station on a horse-drawn light railway.

 

Battle of Flers-Courcelette. 15-22 September 1916. A damaged corrugated iron dugout amid shell-torn tree stumps at Martinpuich.

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