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The heavy artillery fire during the battle destroyed the landscape, but also provided hiding spots for advancing troops and defending machine gun nests. Here, two Canadian officers take shelter on the battlefield, October 1916.

Black and white photograph. Two Canadian soldiers take a break from consulting the paper in their hands; they look at the camera from the shell-hole they are sitting in. — (Canadian Dept. of Defence, Library and Archives Canada, MIKAN No. 3521767.)

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