ILLUSTRATIONS

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British "Tank" in ActionFrontispiece

FIGURE

1.Showing Use of Natural Cover by Soldier Lying Down22

2.Showing Use of Sandbag and Earth for Protection22

3.Showing Position of Body Behind Earth,

and Direction of Fire Round Right Side of Cover26

4.Trench System Showing Fire, Support

and Reserve Trenches; Redoubts; Communicating

Trenches; Saps; Listening Posts, etc.28

5.Showing Method of Cutting Trench;

Parapet and Parados; Drainage28

6.Showing Revetting; Flooring Made of

Boards and Chicken Wire; Drainage30

7.Trench with Simple Dugout under Parapet32

8.Finished Dugout, 6'x4'x4' with Deep

Entrance and Shrapnel-proofing32

9.Finished Trench Showing Parapet and

Parados; Firing Step of Earth; Flooring;

and Shelter Dugout under Parados34

10.Machine Gun Position with Heavy Overhead Cover36

11.Simple Entanglements Made of Barbed

Wire and Rough Posts42

12.Trench Periscopes46

13.Simple Loophole Made of Steel Plate

Let into Parapet52

14.Ordinary Hand Bomb with Fuse Lighted

Automatically as Lever Is Released52

15.Trench Bomb Gun Firing Bomb with

Stem; and Trench Mortar Firing Large Bomb54

16.Simple Gas Mask with Flutter Valve or

Check Valve. Ambulance Dogs and

Horses in the Gas Zone Were Equipped as Shown56

17.British Soldier Fully Equipped with

Pack, Entrenching Tool, Sandbags and Steel Helmet78

TRAINING FOR THE TRENCHES

TRAINING FOR THE TRENCHES