Word: trenches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Real Trench on View...
...trench, the work of a British army officer, Captain Norman C. Thwaites, V. C., will be the next most important exhibit. It will be complete in every detail, showing the quarters in which the soldiers have lived, fought and died; and will contain all the usual paraphernalia...
...When we first entered the long communication-trench, things seemed pretty quiet. Only a shot and an explosion at long intervals could be heard. We had travelled along the communication trench about half an hour, and were about to enter our shelters in the second line trenches when not far away came two fairly loud bomb explosions in quick succession. Then the earth seemed all of a sudden to reel. There was a commotion like the bursting of a volcano. Two hundred yards off, above the trees, a column of huge rocks, lumps of earth, tree-trunks and probably numerous...
...peculiar bizz, bizz, whizz sound like someone whistling in surprise. I could not help making the inward remark, 'I knew war was tought, but look here, boys; isn't this a bit too rough?' It seemed that the Germans had exploded a mine under one of our trenches, then opened a violent fusillade to capture what remained of it. Being second-line troops just arrived from resting up, we were not required to fight. We consequently were huddled together in a bomb-proof shelter, packed all day like sardines, but quite satisfied to remain where we were, while above...
...well recently discovered near Boylston Hall by workmen who were building water pipes leading through the district, has proved a most interesting find. The men were constructing a long, deep trench to lay piping that should carry water from the street to Wadsworth House. As they were working, just beyond the path which leads through the Yard, opposite Boylston Hall, they came upon what they at first thought, to be a cavity where old piping foundations had been. Upon further investigation it proved to be a round well whose sides were carefully built of stone and had apparently lasted...