Somme selfies: you can imagine these boys down the pub in 2016

In the run-up to July’s centenary of one of the bloodiest battles in human history, The Independent is publishing a different Tommy’s picture every day

Three young British soldiers with faces that you might see in a pub today. They are wearing the “Gor Blimey” soft caps first issued in 1915. Their scuffed and chalky boots suggest that they have recently been in the front line. On each day until the centenary on 1 July, we are publishing a “Selfie from the Somme” – an image chosen from a collection of more than 700 long-lost photographs brought to light by The Independent in recent years.