• Also hand washing practices in the trenches weren't great, typically the second chorus of happy birthday was interrupted by an incoming shell.

  • Interesting, I'd heard that it was by the second round the sniper had got their eye on you.

    Edit:
    But then they'd be killed by a shell. And not flu. Though, the spread of the virus may have been helped by bullets and bombs.

  • My grandad was killed at Ypres. He wasn't in the army, he was camping in the field next door and went over to complain about the noise.

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