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| 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 |
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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 |