In WW1, both sides carried out trench raids, with parties numbering from a handful to as many as 500 raiders. These raids were partly to try and take prisoners and seize documents, partly to damage enemy morale, partly to keep an aggressive spirit in troops in otherwise static positions, and partly to prevent any arrangements of this sort.
Source: Brave Men: Allied Trench Raiding in the First World War- Efstathiou, Nicholas E.
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