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  1. It would depend on the regiments I suspect. You could pick a ranger reg and the entire cohort would’ve let loose a gigantic volume of lead.
    But as to the WW1 question. I suspect the number might be about right, but I’d lean to 20-25%. Remember the Line Regs were over the top and march with blade attached and butt of the rifle at the hip, to be mown from interlocking enfiladed machine gun emplacements.
    Most of the engagements were with Guns, machine guns, snipers and small specialise pathfinder troops using knife, trench tools and Mills Bombs. Mostly it was towards planes they fired while in the trenches.

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