GERMAN OFFENSIVE 6 [Main Title]

British and French troops in and around Amiens, Western Front, ca 5-7 April 1918.

British and French troops camped in woods, with one man being shaved, probably close to Boves. French soldiers drive two abandoned cows in past British 18-pounders. A French armoured car of II Cavalry Corps, (?) a special model based on the White chassis, halted while two British soldiers talk to the occupants. German shells bursting over open country with a wood in the background, near Moreuil. A mule cart on the road with all the mules dead. A panorama of Amiens taken from the north-east across the river, showing the cathedral. A close-up pan, top to bottom, of the cathedral itself. British and French soldiers camped in woodland with a cow and a few horses, the men sleeping or resting, probably 2/10th Battalion, the London Regiment, of 58th Division with soldiers of the French 29th Division (?). A camouflaged 6-inch howitzer battery firing from a treeline out across a plain. A French 75mm battery firing in the open, showing the firing mechanism of one gun, probably near Domart. A French naval gun (?) on a railway carriage mount firing, near Boves.

35mm