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A wiring party is described in detail in the World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front by E.M. Remarque, as well as the 1930 film based on it. Paul Bäumer, the main character, describes an experience of front line duty in a nighttime wiring party. Part way through the work, they are shelled and one of his comrades is killed.
A wiring party with shovels and screw pickets. A soldier using a barbed wire anchor spike to screw in a picket at Fort Belvoir, Virginia (August, 1942) A screw picket is a metal device which is used to secure objects to the ground. Today, screw pickets are used widely to temporarily "picket" dogs.
On 24 June, the Germans captured a wounded soldier from a 1/5th North Staffordshire wiring party, who had been left behind and struggled towards the wrong front line. The private was interrogated, while semi-conscious through loss of blood, giving details of the British attack.
Wiring party of the 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers going up to the trenches, Beaumont Hamel, France, July 1916. Note a trench pump in the foreground. Note a trench pump in the foreground. Passing through the Mediterranean port of Marseilles the 29th Division arrived in the rear of the Somme battle front from 15 to 29 March 1916. [ 10 ]
On the night of 22 May, Sen was in action as the member of a wiring party that was heavily bombarded. Sen was hit in the leg by a shrapnel. When he was being dressed up, he was hit again in the neck and he died instantly. He was buried at the Sucrerie Military Cemetery in Colincamps in Somme, France. [4]
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