Training for the Trenches A Practical Handbook Based upon Personal Experience During the First Two Years of the War in France

This war is being fought out, not in great open battles, but in successive conflicts from the security of trenches in what "Papa Joffre" has called the "nibbling process." It is...

If the rules of health set forth in the foregoing chapter are carefully observed, the soldier will be doing the best he can to keep his body fit. He will be building up a reserv...

So far I have been dealing with disease from the point of view of the individual and I have said nothing of the duties of officers towards their men in this respect. A word on t...

Trenches can only be considered as devices for affording temporary protection during the time that preparations are being made for delivering an attack. No one wants to remain i...

Benjamin Franklin once said, "Be sober and temperate and you will be healthy." This is in the main true and is excellent advice for the soldier. But there are ills that are liab...

There are two things to be done after the trenches have been dug--one is to keep them in order, and the other is to provide outside protection for them. The elements themselves...

The question is often asked by prospective soldiers as to what is the irreducible minimum that a man should take to war, in the way of equipment. I say irreducible, for it is to...

It may be desirable to indicate the various kinds of shell fire to which trench men are exposed. (I pass over rifle fire which is harmless so long as men keep their heads down a...

The change from civilian to soldier is one that is not easily accomplished. We soon find that there are many new conditions to be faced, many new and uncongenial tasks to be und...

A closing word should be said on the subject of trench ruses. As in every other form of warfare, deception must be practised on the enemy. He must be made to believe you are doi...

A new and deadly form of warfare is the use of GAS. Until April, 1915, we knew nothing about it and then we had to face it to our great cost. We had no masks and no apparatus of...

I feel that no hints on health would be complete without some brief reference to the "terrors of the trenches"--LICE. A learned Professor of one of the Universities of England p...

Sooner or later in the course of his trench experience the soldier will be subjected to an infantry attack. Artillery shelling, aeroplane attacks, mining, etc., are part of ever...