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The Trenches

Press the ‘Esc’ key at any time to stop the presentation. The Trenches. A pictorial investigation. Des Quinn and Martin Williams. Photograph taken by Captain Evelyn Byrde, 2nd Monmouths. Soldiers of the 2 nd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment in a trench near Le Bizet, France, April 1915.

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The Trenches

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  1. Press the ‘Esc’ key at any time to stop the presentation. The Trenches A pictorial investigation.... Des Quinn and Martin Williams

  2. Photograph taken by Captain Evelyn Byrde, 2nd Monmouths Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment in a trench near Le Bizet, France, April 1915. Pick out some of the features of this trench Enlarge the image Reproduced by kind permission of the South Wales Borderers Museum

  3. Pick out some of the features of this trench Reproduced by kind permission of the South Wales Borderers Museum

  4. Soldiers of 2nd Monmouths in the trenches at Le Bizet in April 1915. Photograph taken by Captain Evelyn Byrde, 2nd Monmouths Look carefully at this photograph. What conditions were soldiers living in while in the Front Line Trenches? No-Man’s-Land Reproduced by kind permission of the South Wales Borderers Museum

  5. Photograph taken by Captain Evelyn Byrde, 2nd Monmouths The view ‘over the top’ for the Soldiers of 2nd Monmouths in the trenches at Le Bizet in April 1915. Reproduced by kind permission of the South Wales Borderers Museum

  6. Photograph taken by Captain Evelyn Byrde, 2nd Monmouths Soldiers of 2nd Monmouths in the trenches at Le Bizet in April 1915. Lieutenant Thomas Williams is in the foreground (why do you think he is dressed the same as the other troops?). The cut-out head of the German Kaiser held by one of the soldiers was used for ‘sniper practice’. Reproduced by kind permission of the South Wales Borderers Museum

  7. What similarities are there between this trench and the trench on the previous slide? Pick out some of the features of this trench Enlarge the image Image courtesy of Des Quinn

  8. Image courtesy of Des Quinn Pick out some of the features of this trench

  9. Describe the conditions in this German trench. Is this what you expected a trench to look like? Descriptive Words What are the soldiers using to ‘bail out’ the trench? Enlarge the image END Image courtesy of Des Quinn

  10. Image courtesy of Des Quinn Describe the conditions in this German trench. Descriptive Words END

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