On September 29, 1918, at the end of World War I, soldiers of the 53rd and 54th Brigades of the British Commonwealth Army gathered the bodies of soldiers killed in the final attack on the Hindenburg Line and prepared them for burial.

 　　On September 29, 1918, at the end of World War I, soldiers of the 53rd and 54th Brigades of the British Commonwealth Army gathered the bodies of soldiers killed in the final attack on the Hindenburg Line and prepared them for burial. Soldiers of the U.S. 27th Division also scattered the corpses of American soldiers from the battle near Guillemont Farm during the attack across the Hindenburg Line. The Western Front was immobilized, and offensive warfare was not keeping pace with the progress of defensive warfare. Although machine guns and rapid-fire artillery could defend, only armed infantrymen attacked, and they did not attack offensively, inflicting heavy casualties. Both sides in the Western War were unable to gain an advantage, and trench warfare was prolonged. The Hindenburg Line was the last and strongest line of defense for the Germans.

　The Hindenburg Line consisted of three trenches constructed at the end of 1916 and established in 1917. During September 1918, the British Commonwealth forces secured positions from which they could launch an attack on the Hindenburg Line, and by the end of September a major offensive had begun. It was hoped that this attack would finally break the power of the German army.

  On September 18, 1918, as the British Federal troops reached the first part of the Hindenburg Line, the German preliminary offensive was launched. At 5:20 a.m., British Commonwealth troops, supported by heavy artillery fire, attacked the fortified German defensive line and machine gun posts. With only eight tanks, they broke through German positions, inflicting 1,000 casualties and taking 4,300 German prisoners of war. Compared to the German losses, the British Commonwealth forces suffered considerably fewer casualties.

　On September 29, the Germans' last line of defense on the Hindenburg Line was finally breached. The British Commonwealth and American forces were given the task of leading the battle and breaching the central defensive line. Tanks, artillery, and aircraft worked in tandem to attack the strongly defended area of Belicour. Although advances were made, the two sides fought, and the battle lasted four days and inflicted heavy losses. Eventually, the Allied forces broke through the third and final stage of the Hindenburg Line. The Germans were forced to retreat.

　In an attack on October 5, an Allied brigade fought and finally captured the village of Montbrehain. With this, the Hindenburg Line was completely broken. The German lines collapsed and the division was forced to withdraw. At the same time, the German Revolution broke out in Germany on November 3, 1918, and on November 9, 1918, the Weimar Republic was born, hoping for peace; on November 11, 1918, the Armistice of Compiègne was signed, ending World War I.