How British Troops Were Adversely Affected

British trench in the rainy season. Weather conditions affected the total environment around and in the trenches which, in turn, affected the comfort level of the soldiers.

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Moving along a 'sap trench' into no man's land as artillery shells explode nearby.

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British soldiers blinded by gas, April 1918

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British troops go over the top during trench warfare at an unknown battlefield in Europe during World War I

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A British soldier keeps watch as his comrades sleep in a captured German trench during the Battle of the Somme (1916). Now British and Australian troops buried in a mass grave on the Somme will be exhumed and given individual burials

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Living and fighting in horrific conditions.

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