Carrying a Lee Enfield rifle and bayonet, Rifleman Stuart Gray leaps an overgrown trench in a practice battlefield, where thousa

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Carrying a Lee Enfield rifle and bayonet, Rifleman Stuart Gray leaps an overgrown trench in a practice battlefield, where thousands of troops trained before embarking for the battlefields of Europe during World War One. The trench system was been discovered by chance on the Browndown Ministry of Defence site in Gosport, Hampshire. Picture date: Thursday March 6, 2014. Photograph by Christopher Ison

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