Photograph from the album Lieutenant J.S. Purvis, 5th (T) Battalion (1916-1918). The entrance to a tunnel leading under 'No Man's' Land from a Scottish (Cameron's ?) forward trench. (Note the canvas covers on the short magazine Lee Enfield rifle working parts), 1916.

Record number: RICGH:2005.31.1

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Photograph from the album Lieutenant J.S. Purvis, 5th (T) Battalion (1916-1918). A unique photograph from the second line trench of troops advancing from the forward trenches on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916.

Record number: RICGH:2005.31.2

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Photograph from the album Lieutenant J.S. Purvis, 5th (T) Battalion (1916-1918). The scene of the Somme Battlefield, July 1916.

Record number: RICGH:2005.31.5

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Photograph from the album Lieutenant J.S. Purvis, 5th (T) Battalion (1916-1918). A shell bursting some 10-20 yards way on the Somme Battlefield, 1916.

Record number: RICGH:2005.31.6

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