Trench raids were made highly dangerous by the arrival ... Around 75,000 British soldiers suffered from the condition during WW1. Hygiene and sanitation in the trenches was difficult to maintain.
The trenches were rediscovered at the Ministry of Defence's Browndown site in 2011 First World War practice trenches that were lost beneath heathland for decades have been granted heritage ...
Twenty-two men who served in the 4th Tyneside Scottish battalion died during a trench raid in France, in February 1917, but only nine were buried in named graves. But the final resting places of ...
CHAMPAGNE, France (Reuters) - Soldiers scramble through trenches under a haze of yellow ... armies once hammered each other during World War 1. The initiative is part of a European Union-funded ...