Life in the quarries was vastly preferable to the muddy hell of the trenches above. A journalist visiting one of the caverns in 1915 noted that “a dry shelter, straw, some furniture, a fire ...
They were very muddy. Some soldiers developed a problem ... But I’d probably feel different if I was a soldier in the trenches during World War One. WW1 SOLDIER JACK: Mud? Oh, we know all ...
Training is part of EU-funded programme Brigade of 2,000 to be deployed soon to front line France providing equipment, including howitzers, missiles CHAMPAGNE, France, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Soldiers ...
Ukrainian Troops Train for Trench Warfare Near France's WW1 Battlefields By John Irish ... conscripts and veterans are training in the muddy fields of France's eastern Marne region, where French ...
CHAMPAGNE, France (Reuters) - Soldiers scramble through trenches under a haze of yellow smoke ... 2,000 Ukrainian conscripts and veterans are training in the muddy fields of France's eastern Marne ...