Shooting from the trenches meant that a soldier had to stand up over the parapet, exposing his head in order to aim at the enemy, posing a perfect target for enemy snipers. Therefore, soldiers needed to find a way to shoot the enemy without the risk of being exposed and shot..
During the evacuation of Gallipoli by the Allies, which started in December 1915, an ingenious invention was constructed on the battlefield by ANZAC forces to deceive the ottoman enemy into thinking a large force was still firing back at them, when in reality the rifles were shooting without a person pulling the trigger!
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