Steel-helmeted Scots entrenched and cheerily awaiting a counterattack
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					British Royal Engineers constructing second line trenches in Flanders
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					Trenches bitterly contested in battle in once peaceful village near Ypres
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					"And the trench was a reeking shambles," German dead in the La Bassée area
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					French mine explosion under enemy trenches
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					French lines captured from the enemy by the Marine Fusileers
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					Awaiting enemy in French trenches with rifle and mitrailleuse
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					"Through sickly shrapnel-sown meadows reaped by death alone"
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					Airplane view of trenches and shell holes
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					French soldiers resting in the trenches
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					In a French trench, sandbag protected, showing dart bombs
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					Sharpshooters in protected position near enemy lines
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					"On all sides round a great furnace flamed," German attack, north Compeigne, France
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					Confederate soldiers killed in the trenches at Petersburg April 2, 1865 [at Fort Mahone].
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