Duck Boards

Men from the 4th Battalion, AIF, walking across ‘duck boards’ at Chateau Wood, Ypres, France, in 1917. Over 40,000 Australian soldiers were killed on the Western Front in France and Belgium during World War I. Contributed REMEMBRANCE Day celebrates the In this final photograph, a Royal Garrison Artillery working party carry duck-boards across the frozen Somme canal at Frise in March 1917, France. Outlines of trenches can still be seen today in the village of Frise. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Lt J W ‘Now, these duckboards had nails. Some of the nails in the duckboards, they were protruding, and, of course, they can dig into the skin and cause pain. These four soldiers lifted Baxter up, and instead of letting him drop, they just gently lowered him More organized discoveries of World War One artifacts in Belgium have surged in the past Archaeologist Marc Dewilde and his team spent the next weeks unearthing the raised duckboards that the British soldier learned to build to allow themselves to The set brings Faulks’ detailed description of war-time France beautifully to life. Beneath a smoky sky, sandbags, duckboards, wire and ladders clearly portray the trenches. Cathedral-like archways stand tall and a broken wooden cross looms over the This, and being able to sit on the wooden duckboards for ten minutes, was a life-saver. For this we were paid the magnificent sum of £2 9s 5d per week. Our health was monitored by our on-site nurse on a regular basis. We were frequently weighed and our .

The trenches themselves were usually constructed with sandbags and timbers and contained a firing step and duckboards in the bottom to keep the soldier's feet above any rain water that had collected there. This was the ideal design. After incessant rain Summoned to a delirious pneumonia patient, shewas walking along the duckboards behind Private John Wilson life of Alice Ross-King is a memorable moment in Peter Rees' book Anzac Girls, the often-forgotten story of nurses from Australia and New Zealand It still has its original features including duck boards, seating and a sump pump. The timber work was mainly made from hardwood so it has survived the damp conditions well. Stagnant water Work at the depot started to wind down from the 1960s and it closed No, this isn't a hot new cuisine. Duckboards, as you may or may not know, are planks (keyword!) laid across areas of boggy or wet soil. They're very handy between beds in the garden, especially in the winter, where built up or raised beds tend to create .

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