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Category: Trench Conditions
E.G.Young (GS) Letter 24.10.16 - Rain, rain up to our knees in mud and water.
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Category: Trench Conditions
E.G.Young (GS) Letter 24.10.16 - Rain, rain up to our knees in mud and water.
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Category: Weather - Extremes
E.F.Wettern (GS) Letter 15/25 (19.11.15) for first rains at Gallipoli.
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Category: Weather - Extremes
C.E.Carrington (GS) Letter 107(27.1.17) and 108(4.2.17) "I believe it's the hardest since '81 or whenever ...". Also letter 122(2.9.17) about rain in September 1917 "it's rapidly ruining the harvest as well ...it's rained a little every day for weeks".
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Category: Dug-outs
J.Cockcroft (GS) 14.10.16 - Construction. 1.9.17 - Captured
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Category: Ypres: 1915 in the Salient
W.H.Binks (GS) Typewritten diary W/F 1915-17. Reference 1915 "Raining for 7 weeks, up to our knees in mud".
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Civilians, Homes and Parents
J.W.Hurworth (GS) Diary 10.11.15 - Heavy rain "caused us to
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Category: Attitudes/Opinions - Towards Other Units
J.R.Tibbies (GS) Vol.d, 59 - PBI sleeping rough "mud for a bed...rain for a canopy, whilst England idolises the RAF" (sic), Cambrai 1917.
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Category: Health, Fitness, Cleanliness and Disease
J.W.Rayner (Air), Infantry Officer on Somme in November 1916. See diary 25.11.16 Raining heavily - terrible lot of sick - nearly all the officers with coughs or touch of dysentry
Category: Weather - Extremes
W.A.Rigden (GS) Diary 1916-1918 p13, Rain. P37, ground frozen several feet. P117, effect on digging/sitting areas. P111, Lying in inches of water.
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Category: Trench Conditions
O.Close (GS) Letter 19.2.16 Heavy rain meant "only places into which we could drain our trench were our dug-outs ... Have had some rotten times - I think this was the worst".
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