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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.
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