The trenches on the battlefield to-day (writes the military correspondent of the Manches or "Guardian.") serve precisely the same purpose as did armor in the days when mailed knights ...
Article : 363 words(a) Bank of earth. (b) Sandbags. (c) Sticks and brushwood. (d) Sandbags with Loopholes. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 139 wordsThis is a sketch of a recessed fire trench. It is usual to provide overhead cover with brushwood covered thickly with earth, turf or other suitable materials. Head cover is very necessary because [?]lading fire is ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 107 words(a) Biscuit tin oiled with earth (b) Narrow elbow rest for firing (c) Protection against hock fire. This is another and more common type of shelter ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 69 words(a) Loophole for rifle fire. (b) Bomb-proof shelter for men resting. This trench is on a larger seale and gives greater protection to the men occupying it. The large "dug-out." ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 91 words(a) Sprapnel shell fired from field-gun time fuse (b) Sharpnel shell fired from howilzer, with time fuse (c) Lyddite shell fired from howilzer percussion ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 280 wordsshaded parts represent shelters. Black parts represent the traverses. This is a sketch of what is technically known as a "traversed" trench, with communication passage. To ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 262 words(a) Overhead cover of brushwood. (b) Loophole for rifle fire. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 115 words(a) Second communication trench (b) Shelter receses out under parapet entrance and arranged between sandbags. (c) Sacks arranged to give cover from lack blast ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 84 wordsIt is parctically impossible for an Australian who has not had the benefit of a trio to the Old Country to realise just what has been the magnitude of the feat of transhipping the ...
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The Globe and Sunday Times War Pictorial (Sydney, NSW : 1914 - 1917), Sat 17 Apr 1915, Page 4
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