Weird & wonderful tricks which helped win WW1

[Still Waters]

They may not appear to be the most sophisticated of tactics. No-one, however, could argue the unusual methods of First World War soldiers to thwart the enemy were not at least innovative.

The weird and wonderful tricks adopted by servicemen to baffle the opposition have been discovered in the archives of the Imperial War Museum, from dressing up as a tree stump to painting their ponies to look like zebras.

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[ShadowSot]

The men disguised as trees in WWI is supposed to be the inspiration for Ents in Tolkien's work.