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 ...

These clips are taken from the original BBC series, WW1 A-Z and are suitable for teaching Key Stage 2 and above in England ... what soldiers in the WW1 trenches were given to eat.

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 ...

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 ...