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These trenches in Buckinghamshire were used to teach soldiers how to survive on the front line during WWI They were reconstructed by RAF Halton in 2010. The base is one of the largest RAF stations ...
A postcard discovered in the diary of a German World War One officer has led his descendant to bring a message sent to the trenches more ... family of a fallen British soldier.
British munitions factories produced over 170 million artillery shells during WW1. As trenches were very good at defending soldiers from the direct attacks of enemy soldiers, other methods for ...
It might not sound like much to write home about, but the 21-year-old -- Lawrence Enderson Grimshaw -- happened to be a soldier stationed in the trenches during World War I. One century on ...
Photographed in 1917, an endless line of Russian soldiers sit patiently in a trench as they anticipate ... the Germans and their French and British adversaries resorted to siege-warfare techniques ...
Tim Buescher, centre, at the grave of his great great uncle, L/Cpl Samuel Chapman, with the military party British soldiers who died in World War One and were buried in unnamed graves have finally ...
In a ‘living memorial’ to the British soldiers killed in the Somme, young men dressed in WW1 uniforms appeared ... a song that was sung in the trenches to the tune of Auld Lang Syne.