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British soldiers leaving for a night raid into ‘No Man's Land’ between the trenches, in 1914. The night patrols on the Western Front were sent out to obtain information about the enemy. Soldiers faced rockets and belts of barbed wire, sometimes more than 30 m/98 ft deep, just in front of the front-line trenches.

Old term for any piece of waste or unowned ground, used at least as early as the 14th century. During World War I, it was used to identify the space between the opposing trenches of the combatants.
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