ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | ||
| British "Tank" in Action | [Frontispiece] | |
| FIGURE | ||
| 1. | Showing Use of Natural Cover by Soldier Lying Down | [22] |
| 2. | Showing Use of Sandbag and Earth for Protection | [22] |
| 3. | Showing Position of Body Behind Earth, | |
| and Direction of Fire Round Right Side of Cover | [26] | |
| 4. | Trench System Showing Fire, Support | |
| and Reserve Trenches; Redoubts; Communicating | ||
| Trenches; Saps; Listening Posts, etc. | [28] | |
| 5. | Showing Method of Cutting Trench; | |
| Parapet and Parados; Drainage | [28] | |
| 6. | Showing Revetting; Flooring Made of | |
| Boards and Chicken Wire; Drainage | [30] | |
| 7. | Trench with Simple Dugout under Parapet | [32] |
| 8. | Finished Dugout, 6'x4'x4' with Deep | |
| Entrance and Shrapnel-proofing | [32] | |
| 9. | Finished Trench Showing Parapet and | |
| Parados; Firing Step of Earth; Flooring; | ||
| and Shelter Dugout under Parados | [34] | |
| 10. | Machine Gun Position with Heavy Overhead Cover | [36] |
| 11. | Simple Entanglements Made of Barbed | |
| Wire and Rough Posts | [42] | |
| 12. | Trench Periscopes | [46] |
| 13. | Simple Loophole Made of Steel Plate | |
| Let into Parapet | [52] | |
| 14. | Ordinary Hand Bomb with Fuse Lighted | |
| Automatically as Lever Is Released | [52] | |
| 15. | Trench Bomb Gun Firing Bomb with | |
| Stem; and Trench Mortar Firing Large Bomb | [54] | |
| 16. | Simple Gas Mask with Flutter Valve or | |
| Check Valve. Ambulance Dogs and | ||
| Horses in the Gas Zone Were Equipped as Shown | [56] | |
| 17. | British Soldier Fully Equipped with | |
| Pack, Entrenching Tool, Sandbags and Steel Helmet | [78] |
TRAINING FOR THE TRENCHES