Capt. H.M. Wallis with Major Willet of R.C.R. go into No Man\u2019s land & capture a German. Previous to this a German raiding party had come over and captured one of our men (an American Legion man).<\/p>\n
*Most commonly associated with the First World War the phrase “no man’s land” actually dates back until at least the 14th century.\u00a0 Its meaning was clear to all sides: no man’s land represented the area of ground between opposing armies – in this case, between <\/em>trenches<\/em><\/a>. For newly arrived novice soldiers No Man’s Land held a certain allure.\u00a0 Such troops were cautioned against a natural inclination to peer over the <\/em>parapet<\/em><\/a> of the trench into No Man’s Land.\u00a0 Many men died on their first day in the trenches as a consequence of a precisely aimed <\/em>sniper’s<\/em><\/a> bullet. During this period the area of No Man’s Land scarcely varied although its width would vary widely from sector to sector, from one kilometre to as little as a few hundred yards (as at <\/em>Vimy Ridge<\/em><\/a> for example).\u00a0 In the latter instance troops would be able to overhear conversation from their opposing trenches or readily lob grenades into their midst. (<\/em>www.firstworldwar.com<\/em><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Capt. H.M. Wallis with Major Willet of R.C.R. go into No Man\u2019s land & capture a German. Previous to this a German raiding party had come over and captured one of our men (an American Legion man). *Most commonly associated with the First World War the phrase “no man’s land” actually dates back until at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1877,30],"tags":[1892],"class_list":{"0":"post-7569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1877","7":"category-diary-entries","8":"tag-royal-canadian-regiment","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7570,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7569\/revisions\/7570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}