Joshua Levine

And you had to be very, very careful of snipers.

You had your own snipers, obviously.

So periscopes were part.

They even had a setup where you could sort of remotely fire a gun through some sort of mechanical.

So you didn't even have to put your head up over the trench.

Sometimes people were incredibly lucky, found lots of accounts, lots, but accounts of shells landing inside a trench, but they were duds.

And one man said a shell landed right next to me.

And he said, I was so fascinated.

I picked it up, you know, pulled it out, picked it up.

And an officer, an artillery officer came along and said two things.

First of all, never, ever touch it again.

It could have gone off.

And secondly, if you'd left it where it was, we could have worked out where it came from.

So, you know, I suppose, you know, people shouldn't really have needed the instruction.

Don't lift it up once it's landed.

But then there are also different kinds of artillery.

So...

You know, the mortars, mortars are interesting because obviously they, you know, they could be in the trench opposite and you could hear it fire.

You could often hear the whoop, whoop, whoop as it came over and you could also see it.

And if you saw it, you could get out of its way.