Life in the quarries was vastly preferable to the muddy hell of the trenches above. A journalist visiting one of the caverns in 1915 noted that “a dry shelter, straw, some furniture, a fire ...

Trenches became valuable to WW1 armies because they were a defensive ... Soldiers couldn’t peek their heads above the trenches because of the snipers’ bullets. Artillery could be fired ...

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 ...