An 8 inch (20.32 cm) by 10 inch (25.4 cm) sepia photo of A Sentry Post on the Canadian Front Line. In a dark brown wood frame with glass cover.

During the day in the trenches much of the time was spent in dugouts sheltering from artillery fire. Sniping was a constant threat to sentries assigned to watch for enemy movement. The opening to the dugout on the right is more generous than the one recalled by Private Aitken: “The entrance to our place was a very small opening and there were no stairs going down like some dugouts. You had to slide down on your stomach and then your pack would catch the roof. Between that, and our clothes wet, and the smell of gas I tell you it was misery all the time. We lit our candles as best we could with wet matches and then we lay for a breather in our dirty dugout.”