FROM THE ARCHIVES

摘要

ON THIS DAY... 7 OCTOBER 1915 "Things were horribly quiet all along the line"- so quiet in fact, that some of the Army Service Corps Mechanical Transport men were getting bored. One morning 17 of them decided they wanted to see some additional action, so got into a lorry and made for the trenches. They drove to the nearest village, and then walked half a mile to the first line of trenches. "The officers there threatened them with all sorts of punishment, but they managed to stick there for two days and two nights," wrote our man. "They enjoyed the experience immensely, but their ardour was cooled when they returned to their unit, by a heavy punishment and by all of them being sent back to the base for fatigue duty 'for the duration of the war'."