Journal . 8E*t* «w M»«r «jkll-»«AY».ROADS. 9C0C1 J LIGHT KAILVWI MftlNTHNANCE. (.SFEBY Tc W ^L, I3IS-). THE WORK OF THE LABOUR CORPS IN FRANCE. 79 light railway construction. In this work, sand was used torballasting the track, and wooden sleepers were used. A move was made on May 29th, 1918, to Steenvoorde, andfor about a fortnight the work comprised new light railwayconstruction similar to that just mentioned. The work per-formed for the next seven weeks was defences at various placesincluding Hondeghem, Hazebrouck, Wallon Cappel, St. MarieCappel, St. Sylvestre Cappel and Zuytpeene, wh
Journal . 8E*t* «w M»«r «jkll-»«AY».ROADS. 9C0C1 J LIGHT KAILVWI MftlNTHNANCE. (.SFEBY Tc W ^L, I3IS-). THE WORK OF THE LABOUR CORPS IN FRANCE. 79 light railway construction. In this work, sand was used torballasting the track, and wooden sleepers were used. A move was made on May 29th, 1918, to Steenvoorde, andfor about a fortnight the work comprised new light railwayconstruction similar to that just mentioned. The work per-formed for the next seven weeks was defences at various placesincluding Hondeghem, Hazebrouck, Wallon Cappel, St. MarieCappel, St. Sylvestre Cappel and Zuytpeene, which comprisedthe formation of fire and communication trenches, breast works,strong points and shallow dummy trenches. These latter,after a certain amount of brushwood had been placed therein,presented an appearance of deep trenches when photographedfrom the air. A section of fire trench in grass land is shownin figure 3. Most of this was done as task work, one shiftper man being to complete six lineal feet of trench, etc. Ashift comprised the stripping of 129 superficial feet of turfwhere the trench, par
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