In the late summer of 1916 during the Battle of the Somme in World War I, a German soldier's bombed body lies on his back in a trench in a German trench section of the Somme that was destroyed by a direct hit by British troops.

 In the late summer of 1916 during the Battle of the Somme in World War I, the bodies of German soldiers bombed to death lie on their backs in a trench in a German trench section of the Somme that had been destroyed by a direct British bombardment. The German soldiers were blown to pieces and turned into bloody lumps of flesh corpses. early in the morning of July 15, the British forces began bombarding again, launching a massive attack on the Bazentan ridge line north of the Somme. This attack caught the Germans by surprise, and the British invaded up to about 5.5 km of the German positions and captured the village of Longjuval.

　The Battle of the Somme broke out on July 1, 1916, with no decisive breakthrough on the first day. A war of attrition ensued over the next two months. The battle that followed was a series of relentless British attacks and equally relentless German counterattacks. After the initial attack by the British Fourth Army, British reserves occupied the northern half of the battlefield. The British Fourth Army occupied the Trones Forest, Mametz Forest, and Contalmaison between July 2 and July 13. It fought to encircle the flank of the German attack on the second main defensive position.

 　A dawn British attack on July 14 occupied up to 5.5 km of German positions. The Germans were swept away until the end of July, but in adjacent positions the Germans held on until August 27. The German positions were not occupied on the morning of July 14. The British missed the opportunity to occupy it, and it took another two months to capture the forest.

　 From July 23 to August 5, the Allied Australian division made heavy sacrifices by capturing the village of Pozieres, an alternate entry route to the rear of the German defenses. The British Fourth Army did not fall until early September to support the French as they fought their way toward Peronne and occupied German Guilmont and Ginchy By the end of July, some 160,000 Germans and more than 200,000 British and French troops had been killed or wounded in action. 1916 On November 18, 1916, British forces halted the British offensive near the Somme River in northwestern France, bringing the Battle of the Somme to a close after more than four months of bloody fighting. By the end, the British had suffered 419,654 casualties, the French 204,253, and the Germans between 450,000 and 600,000 casualties.