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Soldiers serving in World War 1 frequently lost their hearing due to the almost constant heavy artillery bombarment (shelling) that was going on around them. It was not unusual for a heavy barrage to be laid by several thousand guns of either side for upto seven days prior to an infantry assualt being chanced. The British preparatory barrage in the week before the Somme offensive in 1916 was so intense that the sound of it could be heard over two hundred miles away in London - I Warner

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