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26 cze 2018 · British Infantry Manual Trench Diagram from 1914. The line nearest the enemy was the fire trench. This was where soldiers regularly saw combat, whether the low-intensity warfare of sniping and pot shots or the higher intensity work of fighting off raids and frontal assaults.
British First World War Trench Maps, 1915-1918. Maps of the Western Front in the Great War depicting British and German trenches. Browse the maps: As individual sheets using a zoomable map; As zoomable overlays of each map on a modern satellite or map layer; By map series and sheet lists; See also: Guide to symbols – a zoomable trench map legend
Learn about the different features and functions of the trenches used by soldiers in World War I. See a diagram of the main parts of the trenches, such as duckboard, dugout, fire step, fire bay, parapet and no man's land.
A Bitesize Guide to the reality of the trenches in WW1 for Key Stage 3 Environment and Society pupils
1:20,000 trench map showing British (blue) and German (red) trenches just east of Arras, revised to 4 March 1917. Trench maps are a primary source for studying the major battlefields of the Great War.
World War I was a war of trenches. After the early war of movement in the late summer of 1914, artillery and machine guns forced the armies on the Western Front to dig trenches to protect themselves. Fighting ground to a stalemate.
Our website 'British First World War Trench Maps, 1915-1918' features 307 trench maps of the Western Front. You can view them as a clickable map, as georeferenced overlays (where the maps are overlaid on modern maps) and as an ordered list.
