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British troops having a dinner in a front line trench, Eaucourt l'Abbaye, October 1916, John Warwick Brooke. Image courtesy Imperial War Museum © IWM (Q 4388).

British troops eating dinner in a front line trench, Eaucourt l’Abbaye, October 1916, John Warwick Brooke. Image courtesy Imperial War Museum © IWM (Q 4388).

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