The New Submarine Danger.
"They'll be torpedoin' us if we stick 'ere much longer, Bill."
On top of the enemy, poor rations, foolish orders, cramped and poor conditions, lice, dysentery, rats and disease, the soldiers also had to contend with the weather. The closing of the battle of the Somme and almost the entirety of the battle of Passchendaele were known for their wet conditions. Foxholes and trenches filled with water, the ground, churned up by constant bombardment, turned into a quagmire, and men drowned in it. The soldiers coped, in part, by turning their gallows humour on the subject, and the soldier's comment here was fairly typical of the time.
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