Life in the trenches: everything you wanted to know
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How the British Army Passed Their Free Time
The average soldier would only attack or be attacked a couple of times in the whole of their trench experience. A lot of them would just spend it drinking tea. The British Army still does have hot sweetened tea all the time. They'd write letters home and read letters. It's not like you think that there's a well-known historian, and that's a man called Gordon Corrigan.
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