Kämpfe bei Lens und Oppy

Summary

Panorama of the destroyed city of Lens; church with marketplace, devastated streets and landscape of ruins; burning buildings, incl. the place of public entertainment „Le Petit Paris“; shell impact on the Lens canal; clouds of smoke waft over the area of the railway station; shot-up English tank on the battlefield near Queant; the bombarded village of Neuvireuil; reserve forces in trench between Neuvireuil and Oppy; infantrymen go across the battlefield without cover; wounded from the battle near Oppy on the 3rd May 1917 are brought back by stretcher; English prisoners, who duck when shells are fired.

Source: Bundesarchiv (Translation)