The trenches cover an area of about 500 metres by 500 metres — making them one of the largest of the 14 known First World War training grounds in England, and an astonishing size to be kept ...

Work to clear out trenches used to train soldiers in Nottinghamshire during the First World War has got underway. Work begins on one of the trenches Credit: ITV News Central The old trenches at ...

Try as we might this Remembrance Sunday, one hundred years on it’s almost impossible to imagine what it was like to live through the momentous days of the First World War. Today the Sunday ...

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All the armies in the First World War had a word for it ... “The employment of high explosives combined with trench warfare has produced a new epoch in military medical science.” ...

WW1 Trench Lighter Restoration. This lighter was found in the woods. The lighter of the revolver was broken and I decided to restore it. This lighter is from the First World War period. I removed the ...

Just over three weeks later, he signed on to the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force to fight in the First World War ... that time in the war.” But life in the trenches quickly turned ...

"The photos and videos from that area are now reminiscent of the landscapes of the First World War ... [there are] burnt trees, trenches, destruction, mountains of corpses of Russian invaders ...

Practice trenches in Gosport believed to be perfect examples of those used in the First World War have been given heritage status. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, you can get ...

It’s a famous story. In the first winter of World War I, in new trenches on the Western Front, British and German soldiers were starting Christmas celebrations and singing carols. They start to ...

Marczinczik happened to be reading about the First World War at the time, and idly wondered if any of the soldiers had played while in the trenches. “I didn’t know a soccer game took place ...

John has given lectures about the restoration. He visited Bradford World War 1 Group to talk about it. “When I mention the trench, the first thing people say is: ‘My uncle, grandad ...