Contemporary WW1 illustration of a British private in hand to hand combat with German soldiers at Ypres in Flanders in 1917.

Contemporary WW1 illustration of a British private in hand to hand combat with German soldiers at Ypres in Flanders in 1917. Stock Photo
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Archive Images / Alamy Stock Photo

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BG24DR

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49.1 MB (5.2 MB Compressed download)

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5275 x 3253 px | 44.7 x 27.5 cm | 17.6 x 10.8 inches | 300dpi

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2009

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Contemporary World War One illustration of a British private engaged in hand to hand combat. It depicts the soldier fighting with Germans in a shell hole on the Ypres front in Western Flanders in 1917. He has already bayoneted one of the enemy, who lies at his feet, and is attacking another while a third is in the process of fleeing. Ypres was the centre of sustained and intense battles between the Germans and Allied forces for much of the war, including the Third Battle of Ypres (July 31 - November 6 1917, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele). The illustration, by an unknown artist, appeared in The War Illustrated periodical in October 1917.