The sight of front-line barbed wire remains a powerful image of the Great War. In the early stage of the war the use of so-called ‘Chevaux de Frise‘ (or knife-rests as they were known by the British) enabled soldiers to prepare barbed wire defences behind the lines and bring them up, putting them in place at night. Being portable they could also be moved. Few survive intact but this section is part of… Read More
Category: 2014-2018, Champagne, First World War, Great War, Nikon Photo, WW1, WW1 Battlefields, WW1 Centenary, WW1 Revisited Tags: 1915, Barbed Wire, Champagne, First World War, French Army, Great War, Nikon, Poilu, Trench, Trenches, Western Front, WW1, WW1 Battlefields, WW1 Centenary, WW1 Revisited
The trenches of the Western Front were protected by barbed wire – The Devil’s Rope – from early on in the war. This section of preserved barbed wire is in front of a French trench on the Champagne battlefields where heavy fighting took place in September 1915. Taken on a Nikon D7000 at the end of a bright spring day.
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