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To: NorthMountain

One piece of equipment I see missing from the 1916 kit (though admittedly it probably wasn’t “issue”, more like improvised) is a trenching tool or spade with its edges and point sharpened. Besides the obvious earth-moving purpose, it also came in very handy as a close-quarter trench weapon...either for raiding (use it like a spear) or repelling a raid (use it like an axe).


26 posted on 12/08/2014 12:36:19 PM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: M1903A1

The object above the Enfield’s receiver looks like a mattock sort of e-tool, the handle is next to the mace.


28 posted on 12/08/2014 12:42:30 PM PST by NorthMountain
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