TRAINING FOR THE TRENCHES
LESLIE VICKERS
TRAINING FOR THE TRENCHES
A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK
BASED UPON PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
DURING THE FIRST TWO YEARS
OF THE WAR IN FRANCE
BY
CAPTAIN LESLIE VICKERS
LATE LIEUT. SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS
LECTURER IN TRENCH WARFARE,
DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY SERVICE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1917,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
LIEUT. GORDON ALFORD
OF THE "ANZACS,"
A VERY GALLANT SOLDIER, A BOYHOOD FRIEND,
WHO MADE THE GREAT SACRIFICE ON THE SOMME,
AUGUST, NINETEEN-SIXTEEN