Show MANY USES FOR SANDBAG Soldiers Employ It in a Number of Ways Besides What It Is Officially Officially Intended For The sandbag Is one of the most useful useful useful use use- ful pieces of military equipment found here anywhere here and the true soldier puts It to manifold uses Their official use of ot course Is to be filled with sand or clay and built Into ramparts barricades and trenches Their unofficial uses are legion The Infantryman man always uses a sandbag sandbag sand sand- bag hag for carrying and storing his rations rations ra m- ra- ra for patching and re enforcing his for lining and curtaining his dugout for muffling mallets and stakes when putting up wire In No NoMan's NoMans NoMans NoMan's Mans Man's Land They make excellent gaiters gaiters gai gal being tied on over the puttees as asa n a further protection against mud and damp They make cozy mufflers In bad weather They are used to cover shrapnel helmets to prevent reflection and they are Bre frequently In demand for tor rifle rUle covers Many an soldiers always al pull pun two sandbags sandbags sand sand- bags over their feet and legs when goIng goIng go go- Ing to bed In billets In other words the sandbag Is Tommys Tommy's pajamas The warmth and comfort of ot a burlap sandbag sand sand- bag when pulled over O chilled feet Is la astonishing The postman's mailbag at nt the front frontIs Is nothing more than an empty sandbag sandbag sand sand- bag and the water carriers also use two sandbags slung back and front over the shoulder each containing a petrol tin full fun of ot water The liThe war way will be over a soldier wit once said when all of ot Belgium and France has been put Into sandbags sandbags sand sand- bags |