trenches

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in 1916 what did the British try and do?
Break through German line in Somme.
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in 1917 what was used to go through enemy lines?
Mines at Arras and Ypres.
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what happened by 1917?
Germans retreated tot the Hindenburg line.
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when was the Battle of Cambrai?
November 1917
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what was used in and around the trenches?
Barbed wire, sand bags, wood for the floor
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what were the types of trenches?
Front line, support trench, communication trench and the reserved trench.
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what does RAMC stand for?
Royal Army Medical Corps
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what does FANY stand for?
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
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what does RAP mean?
Regimental aid post
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what diseases and illnesses did soldiers get?
Trench foot, gangrene, frostbite, trench fever and typhus.
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what where the different gases used?
Chlorine gas, Mustard gas, Phosgene and Lachrimtory gas
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in 1915 what was introduced?
Metal Helmets
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where were trenches often built
on farmland
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