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| Picture No | 10909874 |
| Date | 1916 |
| Description | Rat hunting with bayonets in the trenches, 1916, WW1 |
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"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.
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| Source | Illustration by Forestier in The Illustrated London News, 1st April 1916, page 432 and 433. |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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