Official Trench Orders for 4th Infantry Division during WW1.

Feb 22, 2018 3:19 PM

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In the Corps today, many of these processes are the same. Simple instructions for order help keep men alive. Logistics wins wars.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Pretty similar to when I was in the army in the early 2000s.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They really don’t look all that different these days. I love being able to get out of my lease with 98% of the text blacked out.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Why does #3 say replica, is it because... It's a replica?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Rock of the Marne

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Doody!.... he he

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Damn, these guys had better working conditions and rules than i do in my company!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Very interesting read, thanks for posting, but could you fix the side-ways pages please? I got a crink in my next trying to read them..

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Good stuff to read. Thanks!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

TLDR?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Tl dr op is pissed about something

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Who would have noticed another madman around here?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A link to this info would have been better.

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In the Corps today, many of these processes are the same. Simple instructions for order help keep men alive. Logistics wins wars.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

As I was reading the documents the same thought went through my mind how it is still very similar to the corps now-a-days

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This looks like a Cunning Plan...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Digitize this for posterity! There are probably a few archives out there that would love have this in their digital collection :)

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I have a book similar to this for American soldiers in Japan in WWII. I'll have to find it and when I do, I'll post about it!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I don't think it really needs stating that you need to remove the bayonet before sleeping with the rifle.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The Rum section is awesome.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

WhAts the Replica footnote about?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I did think that it was in too good of a condition

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I have a few special forces manuals on survival, operations, guerilla warfare, etc that were my dads. I treasure them and have (1)

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

(2) read them all several times since I was a kid

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I have my grandpa’s Navy SeaBee’s engineer book from ‘47. Shows every vehicle from truck to farm equipment and their dimensions/powertrain

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

@OP are you able to do a full scan of these?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I see you sneaking in shadow selfies, @OP (seriously cool post though)

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Per Robert Citino, the Americans deployed in force only in the last months of the war. 25,000 of them died each month that summer and fall.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wow

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4th ID, Steadfast and Loyal.

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 4

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8 years ago (deleted Mar 1, 2023 1:49 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

I just went back and reread the actual document title vs the post title, and you are correct. I was never “in his Majesty’s service”.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

We're fit to fight.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Ivy Division

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this would be the British 4th Infantry Division

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Unfortunately there werd no landmines Being used in ww1

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Improvised land mines in the form of buried artillery shells were used in WWI, particularly by the Germans against French and British tanks

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Later the Germans developed and mass-produced the Flachmine 17: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flachmine_17

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You are right, but i meant not on a huge manufacturing scale. Like we zee nowadays

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That is some of the funniest and heart rending writing. Really showed what an enormous shit show this war was.

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Let me recommend you Spike Milligan's WW2 diaries - they are as funny and as sad and as well written but they are also mostly true.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You got that right. Rowan Atkinson's best work too, IMO.

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Agreed.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

@OP is traitor giving official documents to Fritz.

8 years ago | Likes 219 Dislikes 0

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8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Am German. Can confirm. Thanks

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Vielen Dank für dieses aufschlussreiche Dokument!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As a Fritz, thanks @OP! Thisll be useful! :D

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Und ich hab sie schon runter geladen.

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traitor.gif

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm as British as Queen Victoria! So your father's German, you're half German, and you married a German!

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Haha

8 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 0

Loose lips skin ships!

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Loose lips sink ships

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Is that nervous laughter to cover the sound of you wetting yourself, you dirty Hun spy?! Just wait until General Melchett gets here!

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

BAAAAARP!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

World War 1 was an excellent method of converting much of the best of a young generation into fertilizer.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Honest question, were a large portion of bodies not recovered?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They wind up buried anyway, mostly.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Rather a large amount https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_in_action#World_War_I

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

:(

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