Hygeine

• How many soldiers had to share a 2 gallon tin of water?

  40
• Mud got through puttees (leg covering from knee to ankle) and boots, macintoshes and overcoats.
• Could you change clothes while on the front line?

  No
• Despite trenches having toilets dug at intervals, what did most men do?

  Use a pail or helmet and toss it in no man's land.
• How did men try combat lice infestations?

  Running lighters over the seams of clothes
• How did horses add to issues?

  Each infantry had ~6000 horses, whose manure was an ideal breeding ground for flies
• What did rats prey on?

  Food and rotting bodies