Hello again.

Thanks for all your answers, We found the German booby traps devilish cunning. The S mine was a terrible weapon, and no one could ever say they could clear them with ease, The Schu mine was a very difficult weapon to find, and to make safe, it was a small wooden box containing explosives, just enough of a charge to blow a man's foot off or if he was unlucky both feet off,

They were made of wood and could not be detected, we tried everything to clear them safely, without much success, I may add. The Schu mine had one other thing going for it, The idea of mines of this nature is not to kill the enemy, it is to wound them, and by so doing overload the services. The most terrible thing about the Schu mine was that it almost always blew the feet off, and then left the remaining bone split apart rather like when a stick of Rhubarb goes when you cut into it.

The other terrible thing was the loss of the young men's genitals. For that was the saddest thing one could ever witness, for those young men so afflicted, there would be no happy marriage or children of their own. Not Bloody funny!

The accepted manner of clearing Schu mines was to prod in front of you with a bayonet, hoping that you would not prod it in the wrong place, for bending over it was certain death. If you would like a pleasant evening's work, try prodding for Schu mines under heavy mortar fire, it is certainly exciting, if you like that sort of thing.
Any views on this subject?
Sapper Brian.