"Firing line" sign, a sniper position in Yorkshire trench system, near Ieper (Ypres), Flanders, Belgium.
This "firing line" sign points towards a steel plate through which a sniper would look towards the German front line. The sandbags and other trench items are all reconstructed but on the site of the original 1915 and 1917 trenches. "The Yorkshire Trench is located near the village of Boezinge (modern spelling, previously Boesinghe). Trenches from 1915 and from 1917 were excavated. The work was undertaken by a group of amateur Belgian archaeologists, known as The Diggers. The excavations were filmed in part by BBC TV for the "Meet the Ancestors" series. The programme, transmitted first in March 2002 was called "The Forgotten Battlefield". The position of the Yorkshire trench can be seen on British trench maps from September 1916, but the name "Yorkshire Trench" was not used until early the following year. A British dugout from 1917 was explored by the Diggers as early as 1992, but the majority of the work on the Yorkshire Trench site took place in the summer of 1998 and in April 2000."
Size: 3624px × 2415px
Location: Boezinge, near Ieper (Ypres), Belgium.
Photo credit: © Maurice Savage / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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