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Entrenching battalions were temporary units formed in the armies of the British Empire during the First World War. Entrenching Battalions were trained as infantry, but were primarily utilized for manual labour duties such as trench repair, wire laying, road making and assisting tunnellers, pioneers, engineers and signals. The Battalions were also used as pools of men from which drafts of replacements could be drawn by conventional infantry battalions.[1][2][3][4][5]
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- ^ "Military Labour During The First". Labourcorps.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2013-08-07. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
- ^ "Entrenching Battalions" (PDF). Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
- ^ "Entrenching Battalions". NZHistory. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
- ^ 'Entrenching Battalions', The National Archives (TNA), Kew, file WO 95/5494/1.