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What is this man smiling about?
[Source: from the store’s WWI news service photo collection, 500 strong!]
He’s satisfied or at least amused with his place there in the steamroller, rather than his soldier brothers who were trying (impossibly) to leverage the beast out of a shell-made muck hole. The guys on foot appear to have had a comic sense of what their task was supposed to be.