"What are our weapons? The pistol, the rifle, the bullet, the bayonet, knuckle-dusters, hook knives with which to rip up, daggers for the heart, butchers' knives for the throat, the bomb for random work.
The weapon that is least needed is a rifle. A club or a sandbag or an Indian battle axe or spiked club is better. A good slugger without any weapon at all may take an adversary's loaded rifle away from him and knock him down and then kick him to death.
I crawled up the trench and came upon two men trying to strangle each other. I thought, then, of motion pictures I had watched back home. Here was a more terrible drama than the movie camera ever showed. A bayonet charge is a street fight magnified and made ten thousand times more fierce.
At close range, it becomes almost impossible to use your bayonets. So we fought with fists and feet, and used our guns, when possible, as clubs." - Pvt. Roméo Houle, 4th Co., 14th Battalion, 65th Reg., 3rd inf. Brigade, 1st Canadian Division. Ypres, Belgium. 1915 #reality #ww1 #stayzero #zerofoxtrot