“Capture of Meteren by the 9th (Scottish) Division, 19th July 1918. A captured German prisoner, carrying a Very Light Pistol (flare gun), on his way back (unescorted) looking at a dead comrade lying at the bottom of a shell-hole, 20th July 1918.” By John Warwick Brooke.
Morbid reality of World War I showing a soldier from the 9th (Scottish) Division standing over a dead body in a shallow trench. The scene captures the grim aftermath of the capture of Meteren in July 1918.