The only thing worse than life in the trenches was having to get out of them. The Imperial War Museum’s collection of podcasts now includes a description of trench raids, by men who took part in crawling across No Man’s Land in the pitch dark to get something out of the other guys’ trench.
http://www.1914.org/podcasts/podcast-15-trench-raids/
When I first started reading about British and Commonwealth forces, I was puzzled by the reference to Mills bombs. I thought they were mortars.
Doughboys standing around watching someone else light a mortar.
But, no, a Mills bomb is a hand grenade, not unlike the one that showed up in a sewing machine last summer.
For a selection of Mills bombs, click here:
http://www.millsgrenades.co.uk/
