Friday 15th December 1916: From our Correspondent in the Field
The adjutant
of the 8th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, now out of the front line told me
that the men have had baths today and been allowed to change their
underclothing. The baths are communal and taken in water tanks, partially
filled and, at this time of the year, bitterly cold, so any thoughts of
luxuriating in steaming water should be out out of the reader’s mind! More
welcome will be the change of underwear which, as one can imagine, is itchy,
dirty and smelly after some weeks without change.
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