Rat hunting with bayonets in the trenches, 1916, WW1

"After rats with a bayonet! A novel form of small game hunting in the trenches. Sport in self-defence: steel helmeted British soldiers ridding the trenches of the plague of rates, with bayonets and terrier." Ferrets were also employed, causing their price in Ashford to rise from 1 shilling to 5. Here the men are portrayed wearing the new British steel helmet

Bayonet Bayonets Duckboards Exterminated Pest Plague Rats Ratting Rodents

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