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A trench raiding club Selection of clubs and a flail used on the Dolomites front. Trench raiding clubs, or trench maces were improvised melee weapons used by both the Allies and the Central Powers during World War I. [citation needed] Clubs were used during nighttime trench raiding expeditions as a quiet and effective way of killing or wounding ...
Garland trench mortar; Livens Projector; Newton 6-inch mortar; Stokes mortar; Vickers 1.57-inch mortar; Projectile weapons. Leach Trench Catapult; Sauterelle; West Spring Gun; Anti-aircraft weapons. Maxim QF 1-pounder pom-pom; QF 2-pounder naval AA gun (Sixteen guns) QF 12-pounder 12 cwt AA gun; QF 13-pounder Mk IV AA gun (Six guns) QF 13 ...
A7V Schutzengrabenbagger [4] 1918 (trench digger) A7V Sturmpanzerwagen [5] 1917 (heavy tank) A7V Uberlandwagen [6] 1917 (supply carrier) Benz-SAG BL10 panzerkraftwagen [citation needed] 1912 (armored truck) Büssing A5P [7] 1915 (armored car) Bussing Kraftzugwagen KZW 1800 1916 (gun carrier) Daimler Marienfelde ALZ 13 1913 (supply truck)
It was infamous for the nature of the fight that developed there; after almost a full year of inconclusive fighting, the front had become a giant trench line stretching from one end of Europe to the other. [1] 1914. Battle of Liège; A diagram of the fortifications surrounding the city
Western Front; Part of the European theatre of World War I: Clockwise from top left: Men of the Royal Irish Rifles, concentrated in the trench, right before going over the top on the First day on the Somme; British soldier carries a wounded comrade from the battlefield on the first day of the Somme; A young German soldier during the Battle of Ginchy; American infantry storming a German bunker ...
The Germans had dug a new trench (Diagonal Trench) across the 47th (1/2nd London) Division front, over the high ground north of Eaucourt I'Abbaye, westwards into the valley. Diagonal Trench was the first objective and was to be taken by the 1/8th London, then the final objective at Gird Trench and the Butte was to be captured by the 1/15th and ...
Trench raiding was a feature of trench warfare which developed during World War I. It was the practice of making small scale night-time surprise attacks on enemy positions. It was the practice of making small scale night-time surprise attacks on enemy positions.
Modern British fire axes, war-time trench axes and even some tool axes have characteristics similar to boarding axes. [5] True boarding axes had heavy cutting blades that either broadly flared out at the edge or were single-flared. Some had langet straps to secure the blade, but others did not.