Five British soldiers standing in the snow outside a building with the sign, ‘Div[isiona]l Baths’ . Probably these soldiers were on a rest period away from the Front where the baths were built, sometimes in disused breweries. Often men had only two or three baths in a month and were a luxury after life in the trenches. Because of the conditions of The Line the soldiers were not only dirty and smelly but usually covered in lice which were a constant irritation and could carry Trench Fever.
Original reads: ‘Snow at the front. Feeling fit after the bath.’
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