A French soldier wearing the uniform of 1914/1915 stands by the side of a water-filled shell crater.
Reverse:R. Guilleminot, Bœspnug et Cie. - Paris
"One man left the front line wounded slightly at dusk on the 12th and on the morning of the 13th was discovered stuck fast in a shell hole a few yards from where he started. Repeated efforts were made to get him out with spades, ropes etc. At one time 16 men were working at once under enemy view. But he had to be left there when the Battalion was relieved on the night 13th/14th."
The commander of the 7 Seaforth Highlanders on a soldier slightly wounded in the October 12, 1917 First Battle of Passchendaele, an action in the Third Battle of Ypres. Artillery bombardments destroyed terrain, turning farmland, irrigation channels, and rain to shellholes, mud, and deadly pools.
Passchendaele The Untold Story by Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson, page 169, copyright © 1996 Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson, publisher: Yale University Press, publication date: 2002
1917-10-14, Third Battle of Ypres, Third Ypres, Passchendaele, First Battle of Passchendaele, shell hole
