The image is a black and white photograph of a group of people lying on the ground in a trench. The trench appears to be made of concrete and is filled with sandbags. The people are lying on their backs with their heads buried in the sandbags, and some of them are lying down with their arms and legs stretched out. There is a wooden fence on the right side of the image, and a pile of rubble and debris on the left side. The photograph is captioned "Nach überaus zäher Gegenwehr genomenne Stellung mit gefallenen Kanadien bei Ratingen (25.9.1915)".