PREPARATORY TO ENTERING TRENCHES
Things to be taken note of before entering:
(a) Check periscopes, wire cutters, field glasses, water carriers, stretchers, field dressings, emergency rations, smoke helmets, rifles, identity discs, sandbags, ammunition.
(b) See that water bottles are filled.
(c) Each officer to have an orderly.
(d) Magazines to be charged and bayonets fixed and unfixed beforehand to insure proper working. When taking over the trenches, the first thing to be done is:
(a) Ascertain position of officers’ dugouts.
(b) Arrange telephones.
(c) Check stores, tools, and reserve ammunition, and its position.
(d) Obtain rough sketch of front and number of traverses to be manned.
(e) See that entanglements in front of trenches are absolutely intact.
(f) Arrange for water and ration parties and find out position of latrines.