What are Trench Raids?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

THE trench raid was originally a .British idea — one which our wily enemy has not been slow to grasp and turn against us when occasion served. Still, as Sir Douglas Haig says, initiative in the cutting-out affray is still held by our side. It is an unofficial venture; an utterly desperate and reckless sort of "lark" upon which men embark of their own free will.

News of a coming raid goes round at sunset when our planes come home to roost, and tally is taken of missing aviators. The keenest sub. of a company calls for volunteers, and picks his men from those who vie with one another for a chance in the midnight adventure now energetically afoot. This is Youth's own mission. Great physical strength is also needed, and a weird armoury of special raiding tools.

For the rifle and bayonet are useless weapons when our lads drop into the eight- foot German ditch, and wild alarms run down the narrow, murderous maze — at this hour in. total darkness, except for rocket flares which only add to the panic and confusion. Pouches of bombs are always carried on these expeditions.