A ration party of the Royal Irish Rifles in a communication trench during the Battle of the Somme . The date is believed to be 1 July 1916, the first day on the Somme , and the unit is possibly the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles (25th Brigade, 8th Division). At_close_grips2.jpg : H.D. Gridwood The Battle of the Somme film image2.jpg : Geoffrey Malins Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R05148, Westfront, deutscher Soldat.jpg : Unknown author Unknown author File:American troops going forward to the battle lin. CC BY-SA 3.0.