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The devastating firepower of modern weaponry helped create the trench stalemate on the Western Front during the First World War. Armies were forced to adapt their tactics and pursue new technologies as a way of breaking the deadlock.
- The Original Bulletproof Vest
Weapons of the Western Front. During the First World War,...
- Year of Stalemate
The trenches were wiped out of existence, and not a trace of...
- Battle of Passchendaele
They occupied a bulge in the lines of trenches, known as a...
- Shop
The National Army Museum Shop offers carefully chosen ranges...
- Conflict in Europe Gallery
The Conflict in Europe gallery charts the ebb and flow of...
- View This Object
'Morning star' trench club, 1915. Trench clubs were home...
- The Original Bulletproof Vest
Weapons for fighting. It had been over fifty years since the last war between the major powers. In that time armies had modernised and developed new war-fighting technologies. As a result,...
Trench warfare reached its highest development on the Western Front during World War I (1914–18), when armies of millions of men faced each other in a line of trenches extending from the Belgian coast through northeastern France to Switzerland.
An Allied soldier at rest in a Western Front trench. Trench warfare is perhaps the most iconic feature of World War I. By late 1916 the Western Front contained more than 1,000 kilometres of frontline and reserve trenches.
Tactics used included trench warfare, machine gun posts, bayonet charges, booby traps, use of barbed wire across trenches and on no-man's land, Iranian human wave attacks, and Iraq's extensive use of chemical weapons such as mustard gas against Iranian troops.
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.
8 lis 2023 · What weapons were used during WW1 trench warfare? The trenches were protected by machine-gun emplacements sheathed in barbed wire, or housed in concrete shelters called pillboxes. They also offered protection to soldiers during artillery attacks via deep dugouts, where troops could shelter and wait for the shelling to stop.
