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Courcelette was heavily shelled during the Battle of the Somme, September 1916. Shells can be seen exploding in the distance over barren "no man's land." The caption below the image reads "'No Man's Land' at Courcelette."

Black and white photograph. Shells can be seen exploding in the distance over barren No-mans land (labelled as such at the bottom of the image). The ground is muddy and uneven, dead trees are scattered. — (Canadian Dept. of Defence, Library and Archives Canada, MIKAN No. 3521768.)

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