Trench Guard

A grave guard (in the British army and battle police ) was in the First World War a specially parked soldier of the military police , which the trenches during the own attack by those left behind, Selbstverstümmlern and malingerers absuchte, as well as deserting and fleeing took or soldiers captured directly from their own ditch shot .

history

The occurrence of grave guards is at least occupied since mid-1916 and applies to all nations in trench warfare on the Western Front fought. In the German army which sometimes were reserve positions immediately behind the front lines as a police line determined

swell

• Bernd Ulrich: Soldier war experiences in industrialized war , article of the Federal Agency for Civic Education , 2013