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Objective: To examine the horrors of trench warfare.

Objective: To examine the horrors of trench warfare.

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Objective: To examine the horrors of trench warfare.

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  1. Objective:To examine the horrors of trench warfare.

  2. An aerial photograph of the opposing trenches and no-man's land in Artois, France, July 22, 1917. German trenches are at the right and bottom, British trenches are at the top left. The vertical line to the left of centre indicates the course of a pre-war road.

  3. Trench Warfare Trench Warfare – type of fighting during World War I in which both sides dug trenches protected by mines and barbed wire Cross-section of a front-line trench 

  4. Trench Weapons British Vickers machine gun crew, western front, World War I.

  5. Introduced by Sir Sam Hughes -popular hunting rifle, made in Canada -seized up when over-heated or became caked with mud -long, heavy -soldiers hated it; they preferred British Lee-Enfield rifles which they would steal at very opportunity The Ross Rifle

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