Taking up shells by motor-driven light railway during the phase known as
the Battle of Langemarck, near Elverdinghe, 19 August 1917.
This photo gives us today a sense of what happened in the Great War and how different it was from today. Look at the car come train giving the necessary method to transport to take supplies to the front, it cannot be going fast as the man at the back seems to be leaning against it, maybe keeping the shells on or just needing a something to lean on while walking. He must have drawn the short straw as the other soldiers are sat on it. The background looks rather plush, so it must be a little distance away from the muddy fields, woods, that we associate with Ypres.