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.

War has been raging in Europe for over two years with no end in sight. The line along the Western Front had barely altered despite the best efforts of the British Expeditionary Force and the French ...

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 ... a sense of daily life at the Front.

It was not one of constant fighting, never-ending trench foot and heartless aggression from commanding officers, despite the impression to the contrary given by most film depictions.

sharing their knowledge and enthusiasm with visitors of all ages There was object handling of amazing WW1 artefacts in the community-run museum and visitors got to hear tales of life in the ...