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Trench Layouts. A typical defensive system was made up of three lines of trenches about 800 yards apart. These ran parallel with the front line, providing protection from fire from the opposite trenches and letting men hold their ground. British Infantry Manual Trench Diagram from 1914.
WW1 Trenches: The Central Nervous System of Battle. Trench warfare characterized much of the fighting during World War One, particularly along the Western Front. Trench systems were complicated with many interlinking lines of WW1 trenches. Front Line Trench Cross Section.
Explore several model WWI trenches and understand the history of trench warfare with this narrated, immersive online tour. The tour can also be viewed as a VR experience using Google Cardboard-compatible device. Visit Google Arts and Culture to learn more.
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.
Main Parts of World War I Trenches Diagram - A diagram of the main parts of the World War I trenches. Highlights the life for soldiers in the trenches of World War I.
The Western Front Association Mapping Portal provides access to historical maps and aerial photographs of the Great War, including trench maps and topographical maps.
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
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.
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.