One soldier keeps a look out using a periscope to see over edge of the trench. Around 650,000 Canadian soldiers fought in WW1. While much of a soldier’s life at the front line was characterised ...

Other verses submitted to trench magazines reveal how soldiers also used humour and anti-German feeling to cope with the conflict. Much poetry written on the front ... to the war. WW1: Did the ...

I’ll go on.” But for the men at the front, on to what? “Trench, hospital, mass grave—there are no other options.” World War I was only partly homicide; the rest was forced suicide.