'over the Top'. 1st Artists' Rifles at Marcoing, 30th December 1917 Art.IWMART1656

'English: over the Top'. 1st Artists' Rifles at Marcoing, 30th December 1917
image: a landscape in the snow. On the left, a red earth trench lined with duckboards stretches away from the viewer. A
group of soldiers clamber from the trench, going 'over the top'. Two lie dead in the trench and another has fallen lying face down in the
snow. Those who have survived plod forward towards the right without looking back. They walk beneath a grey, stormy sky, with clouds from

shell and gunfire in the distance.