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141 Days: The Battle of the Somme

Training

The training of the New Armies was a massive undertaking. Vast hutted camps replaced the tented camps of the first months of the war. Soldiers training became more complex and adapted to the fighting that the army was experiencing on the Western Front. The Army was slow to change, in many ways, but they had to react to new and horrific methods of warfare including poison gas - which was first used by the Germans in April 1915 in the Second Battle of Ypres.

Practice trenches were built so soldiers could experience front line conditions and even poison gas was used to make the training as realistic as possible.


Captioned: “Entering the gas chamber” Seven soldiers are going into a trench system along side a notice board and a wind direction pointer.
Accession Number: KO2917/74-19


Hayling Island, Machine Gun Course, 15 May 1915- 29 May 1915 On the Range. Watching a demonstration of indirect fire. 7th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
Accession Number: KO1769/01-079
 

Next: Time Off

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