Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches, dug-outs and barbed-wire fences moved very little between 1914-1918, despite attempts on both sides to break through.

British soldiers read a map in the trenches of the Western ... Around 650,000 Canadian soldiers fought in WW1. While much of a soldier’s life at the front line was characterised by boredom ...