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Diagram of British trench system, winter 1914-1915, from the official manual, "British Notes on Field Defences" : Photograph 1914-1915.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- 1914-1915, author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- 1914
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource (viewed on October 15, 2018).
- There are two lines, the 'fire trench' and the 'cover trench', linked by 'communication' trenches have alternation bays (12ft-15ft long) and traverses (6ft-8ft long, 3ft-6ft front to back). The cover trench is characterised by a series of dug-outs with overhead cover (bottom right), and is shown as 2 ft wide at the bottom.
- AMDigital Reference: British_Trench.
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