Infiltration trenches are linear ditches that collect rain water from adjacent surfaces, and their highly permeable soils allow the water to quickly seep into the ground. As mentioned, infiltration ...

Trenches became valuable to WW1 armies because they were a defensive ... In 1914, the winter weather was particularly bad with enormous amounts of rain. Soldiers could find themselves standing ...

But I’d probably feel different if I was a soldier in the trenches during World War One. WW1 SOLDIER JACK ... JACK: I can get out of the mid and the rain any time I want, but those soldiers ...

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 ...