On the Western Front of World War I, a French infantry company was shot down in a forest near Péronne in a surprise attack by German troops in the early hours of August 28, 1914. The bodies of many French soldiers killed were scattered on the battlefield near Péronne.

　　On the Western Front of World War I, a French infantry company was shot down in a forest near Péronne in northeastern France in a surprise attack by German troops in the early hours of August 28, 1914. The bodies of numerous French soldiers killed were scattered across the battlefield near Péronne, where much of the fighting took place. A French officer looked around at the scattered corpses (Illustrated War News, Oct. 14, 1914).

　The French military recorded in an official French military dispatch dated September 24, 1914. The German detachment had occupied Peronne and was holding this battlefield despite the heavy French attack. The Germans occupied the Péronne from August 27 to September 14, when a French cavalry division temporarily reoccupied the Péronne; on August 28, the Germans again invaded the Péronne, this time with the help of a French cavalry division. The Mail's correspondent recorded the ensuing battle as seen from a neighboring village. Shells were falling on the road and in the woods beyond. At eleven o'clock one morning, the French army came under heavy concentrated fire from the Germans. The French held out for a time, but the Germans occupied the French positions.

　In the early morning of August 28, the Germans invaded from Bapaume and surprised the French troops in their posts around Peronne. The attack continued until August 29, when French troops were driven back from Manancourt, southwest of Bapaume, by German units. Further east, French troops on the left of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) failed to prevent the Germans from reaching the outskirts of Peronne on August 27.

　The French withdrew south of the Somme, and Peronne was reoccupied by the Germans on August 28. The German invasion continued toward Amiens, and on August 29, French troops reached Blay-sur-Somme, Signor, and Flamerville, all near Amiens. They counterattacked the German vanguard units. The German counterattack recaptured Ployard, and the French retreated south; on September 11, the Germans withdrew from Amiens, and on September 12, French troops arrived from Rouen, capturing a few remaining troops. French troops invaded northeast toward Peronne and Fricourt on September 17.

　  Illustrated War News," the first issue of which appeared in August 1914, was a photo World War I weekly magazine published by the Illustrated London News and Sketch Company of London, England. The magazine consisted of 48 pages of articles, photographs, diagrams, and maps, and was printed in a horizontal format; from 1916, a vertical publication of about 40 pages was issued. It was reputed to have the most artist correspondents reporting on the course of World War I. Publication ceased in 1918.