Three Rs the bane of soldiers in the trenches

One got used to many things, but I never overcame my horror of the rats. They abounded in some parts, great loathsome beasts gorged with flesh. … A battalion of Jerrys would have terrified me less than the rats did sometimes. — Pte. Harold Saunders 2nd Battalion

Geordon ORMAND
The Canadian Press
OPINION


The three Rs they studied in school were nothing like those confronting young soldiers dug deep into the trenches of the First World War: rats, rain and rations. The labyrinthine network of passageways gouged into the hard-packed European soil offered...

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