Selected by Patricia Methven, Director of Archives & Information Management

What

Photograph by CH Foulkes captioned ‘A continuous trench of British and German killed in daily use behind the firing lines’, Ypres 1915.

Why

The sheer ordinariness of the scene, apparently just ditches and fences, is visually compelling; its line of trees presaging the future serried rows of war graves.

Ref: Foulkes 6/94

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