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Sapper Empey’s Frontline Training and Trench Digging Reflection
American Arthur Guy Empey chronicled his British service from enlistment in London to training in France. He recounts the brutal baths, uniforms, and discipline, highlights a chaplain’s bravery in saving wounded, and details a No Man's Land trench dig with a covering party. Casualties rise to 63 with 21 killed and 37 wounded. The piece reflects on the high cost of war and notes the grim statistic that killing or wounding a soldier costs thousands of pounds.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
Fingland
London
France
Empey
S. P
Sanitary Police
Hall
Tommy
No Man’s Land
Fritz
Royal Engineers
Stephen Otter
United States Naval Reserve Force
Navy Department
Ensign Potter
Potter
Hinder Light
War Department
Ordnance Department
United States Army
Colt