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Description
Mr. Lidstone describes the role of the Battalion Engineering Corps in repairing damaged trenches.
Transcription
We didn’t dig any new trenches. That was left to the infantry and that. If a shell would land in a trench and blow it out, we’d go up and repair that so they could use it again, and the trench infantry would follow right along, you know. The trench men would open it up and they couldn’t go from one part of it to the other, and we’d repair the damage back into the condition it was before. Oh, it was about two feet wide at the bottom and about four feet wide at the top. A firing step, it was up about two feet high and then you’d step off that, down onto the communication part of it to walk along. That would be deep enough so that your head would be down below the surface of the ground. If you showed your head above the ground, a sniper would get ya.