Trench Talk: Words of the First World War by Peter Doyle & Julian Walker

Author:Peter Doyle & Julian Walker [Doyle, Peter & Walker, Julian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: World War I
Amazon: B009K2GXFU
Publisher: Spellmount
Published: 2011-11-29T05:00:00+00:00

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In the trenches, looking over the parapet during daylight hours was most unwise; snipers would have weapons fixed in position, targeted at dips in the parapet, at latrines and crossing points, and at loop hole plates. There was continual loss of life on the Western Front through the actions of snipers in this way. From early on, the need to be able to look over the parapet to observe activity in no-man’s-land led to the production of specially designed ‘trench periscopes’. In an issue of the Transactions of the Optical Society for 1915, the basic parameters were laid down for trench periscopes, the object of which, it was stated, was ‘to give the soldier a view of his front whilst his head and person are sheltered’. Soldier names for periscopes included a ‘look see’, or a ‘look stick’, presumably for the slender types often carried by officers.

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