British soldiers in a war-damaged street in Bapaume, 1918 (b/w photo)

British soldiers in a war-damaged street in Bapaume, 1918. Photograph, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), 1918. Bapaume had been devastated during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. The town had been a target for the British on the first day of the offensive, but it was not liberated until the Germans withdrew to the Hindenburg Line in February-March 1917. The Germans then reoccupied the town during their Spring Offensive of March 1918. Bapaume was finally liberated for good by the New Zealanders on 29 August 1918. One of 193 British and Allied official photographs.