Imagine knowing that your only options for continued survival are refusing to do it, which leaves you with either running away successfully and all others options leaving you shot by your brothers in arms, or fixing a bayonet onto a rifle to run into the enemies trench who are possibly waiting ready to mow you down the second your head pops up.
I’d probably end up shot by my commanding officer, I just don’t know how these guys handled it.
ophelias32
The fascinating thing is that by this time bayonets were pretty much obsolete and were only used as tradition or because their superior ordered them to. Death by bayonet was pretty much nil since after the opening weeks of the war.
![Canadian troops fix bayonets before going over the top to assault German positions. 1916. [1600 x 1259 px]](https://i.redd.it/zb8ot8rsy1g41.jpg)
Raghnaill
Man, fuck that.
Imagine knowing that your only options for continued survival are refusing to do it, which leaves you with either running away successfully and all others options leaving you shot by your brothers in arms, or fixing a bayonet onto a rifle to run into the enemies trench who are possibly waiting ready to mow you down the second your head pops up.
I’d probably end up shot by my commanding officer, I just don’t know how these guys handled it.
ophelias32
The fascinating thing is that by this time bayonets were pretty much obsolete and were only used as tradition or because their superior ordered them to. Death by bayonet was pretty much nil since after the opening weeks of the war.