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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...system of trenches at Fresh Pond on which two companies have been working each day under the guidance of the French Officers is rapidly nearing completion. All of the excavation is completed except a few points in the first line, and in one of the boyeaux, and the men are now engaged in performing the finishing details which will make the trenches habitable. The ever difficult problem of drainage is being met in the several ways adopted on the Western front, floor gratings are being constructed and placed and weak portions of the trench walls are being braced and reenforced...
...Fresh Pond the work of field fortification is continuing under the tutelage of the French officers, who are teaching the men not only the manner of building the trenches, but also the methods of defending and storming them...
Following up the practical instruction in trench construction which has been given at Fresh Pond by the French officers during the week, Major Azan, assisted by Professor Merriman, lectured to the Corps last night on "Practical Application of the Principles of Trench Construction." The general theory of support and communication trenches was taken up, and certain problems of construction were dealt with in detail...
Today the Third Battalion is to spend the day at Fresh Pond in placing and digging entrenchments under the guidance of the French officers. Several hundred yards of the system of trenches which the Frenchmen have laid out are already completed, and the balance will be done in the next few days...
According to the plan which the other companies of the regiment will follow, Companies C and D marched out to Fresh Pond this morning after the 8 o'clock section meetings, and remained there until evening, having lunch in the field. One more field kitchen has already been secured for the use of the Corps, although it will probably not be needed until the hike. It is at present stationed on Soldiers Field...