It might not sound like much to write home about, but the 21-year-old -- Lawrence Enderson Grimshaw -- happened to be a soldier stationed in the trenches during World War I. One century on ...

Trenches became valuable to WW1 armies because they were a defensive ... attacking soldiers faced unprecedented firepower. Machine guns were now capable of firing hundreds of rounds per minute ...

A new gravestone has been erected for a World War One soldier who died as a result of the after effects of a gas attack and heart disease - caused by infections contracted in the trenches.