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Life in the trenches

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Mobile cooker on the Western Front
Playing cards near the Western Front line
Christmas Day goodies care of the New Zealand YMCA
Trench raiding party, 1916

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Stanley Herbert remembers Passchendaele

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Film: trench life in the First World War

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Receiving news from home on the battlefield
Slide show of life on the Western Front battlefield
Rest and recreation on the Western Front

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Life in the trenches

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