I quite like playing in the mud. But I’d probably feel different if I was a soldier in the trenches during World War One. WW1 SOLDIER JACK: Mud? Oh, we know all about mud here on the Western Front.

They played key roles in: By the later years of WWI, the use of horses had shifted primarily to transport, as trench warfare made traditional cavalry nearly impossible. For many soldiers ...

Winter temperatures can drop below zero, and no bonfires are allowed in the trenches because the light would attract drones that could target and hit the soldiers. Even making a phone call ...

Photographed in 1917, an endless line of Russian soldiers sit patiently in a trench as they anticipate a German attack. National Geographic Nearby, on one of the tunnel walls, our headlamps ...

In a ‘living memorial’ to the British soldiers killed in the Somme, young men dressed in WW1 uniforms appeared ... a song that was sung in the trenches to the tune of Auld Lang Syne.

Roscommon, 4 June 1915 - A letter from Lance Corporal D. Higgins of the Leinster Regiment to his mother in Roscommon, has painted a vivid picture of life at the front. The letter begins: 'It's a ...