. How armies fight. ough, has been left filled with earth. These bags are about 20 inches long ° by 10 inches wide by 5 inches thick. Two bags (a, a) standing to Conceal are laid on their flat sides across the top of two bags ® (fr, b) placed on their long edges a little distance apart, f^Q Sand-bag loODholeS so that the man can fire between them as shown. J h tr which have been madealong the front of the improvised trench. There areseventy of these loopholes, which are built to protectthe heads of the seventy men firing. The remainder ofthe company are known as the support, and sit on thebott
. How armies fight. ough, has been left filled with earth. These bags are about 20 inches long ° by 10 inches wide by 5 inches thick. Two bags (a, a) standing to Conceal are laid on their flat sides across the top of two bags ® (fr, b) placed on their long edges a little distance apart, f^Q Sand-bag loODholeS so that the man can fire between them as shown. J h tr which have been madealong the front of the improvised trench. There areseventy of these loopholes, which are built to protectthe heads of the seventy men firing. The remainder ofthe company are known as the support, and sit on thebottom step, ready to reinforce or replace their comradesif necessary. Next to D we find E Company, intrenched behind ahedge in almost exactlythe same way as are Aand B. Stretched in frontof D and E Companies isa line of wire entangle-ment about a foot high,ten yards wide, and four hundred yards long (see Fig. 16).(This entanglement is shown on Map 9 by blue lines.)H Company of the Coldstreams, helped by some sappers,. Fig. 16.—Low Wire by the Coldstreams. HOW THE GUARDS FORTIFY TROU-DU-BOIS. 181 were working at this from six oclock to ten yesterday-evening. They had to cut the stakes from some woodenfences near the village, sharpen the ends, drive them abouttwo feet into the ground, and then twist over seven milesof wire from top to top. Seven miles of wire! Where on earth did they getthat from ? The sappers, of course. Fortifying positionsis the special job of their field companies. The major ofthe 23rd, knowing that a very large quantity of wirewould be required, commandeered a horse and wagon fromEllencourt Farm yesterday, and sent them galloping off toNivelles with half a dozen sappers, with orders to bringas much as they could lay hands on. They were back ina couple of hours with over forty miles of good, stout the meantime, H Company had got most of the stakesprepared and driven into the ground. It was fortunate,by the way, that those sappers di
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