Yes. They even provided ladders to get up into No Man's Land and Red caps to hold thelladder for them.

Very well led if the object was to get them running into the other side's guns.

My point in all of this is the concerted attempts to whitewash what has always been the perceived history. That's why you see Keith trying to argue that Oh What a Lovely War and chuffing Blackadder are the only dissenters. Really?

Everybody knew what to expect. Really?


Nobody cheered, they stood there and stared
Then turned their faces away.

I can imagine Keith in that crowd.