Pl. 1
Plate 1 of 87 · Class I, Rifles & pistols
Bayonet
A knife, dagger or spike mounted on the muzzle of a rifle so that the gun can be used as a spear in close combat. The popular image of the First World War is of soldiers with fixed bayonets going over the top and charging across no man's land.
Mentioned in
- Chapter I The Long Fuse §9 Armies and War Plans
- Chapter IV Deadlock §3 Second Ypres and the First Gas Attack
- Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions §2 America Enters, and the World Follows§10 Baghdad, Beersheba and Jerusalem
- Chapter IX In the Trenches §2 A Day in the Line: Stand-To, Rum and Relief§5 Going Over the Top
- Chapter X The Machinery of War §9 Flames, Grenades, Mortars and Clubs