Camouflage tree

English speakers also called camouflage trees "fake trees", "observation trees," and "false trees", while German speakers called the observers in the trees (). == Use ==

The camouflage tree was invented by the French painter , leader of the French Army's , at the request of General de Castelnau. It was first used in May 1915 during the Second Battle of Artois. The French Army subsequently shared the design with the British Army, who assigned Solomon Joseph Solomon to lead a program to make a British camouflage tree. Underwood selected a dead willow tree in no man's land between trenches, and sketched it. One night in March 1916, the original tree was cut down and replaced with the camouflaged tree. The German design covered the viewing hole with wire mesh. == Legacy ==

A British camouflage tree remains in the permanent collection of the Imperial War Museum's First World War Galleries. == See also ==