The picture is dominated by stripped and mangled trees along the bottom of a ridge down the left hand side of the photograph. At the bottom of the ridge a pool of water has collected and seems to be iced over. The rest of the hilly, muddy landscape is visible although it is all equally barren. The Battle of Ancre, fought during November 1916, concluded the Battle of the Somme and removed the last remaining German outpost from the Allied Line. After this battle the line flattened out and stabilized. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE FRONT IN FRANCE. A scene on the Ancre.']