are great luxuries for those returning from the trenches.” They kept an even temperature year-round, but as one French soldier wrote home, “vermin devour us, and it’s teeming with lice ...

Around 650,000 Canadian soldiers fought in WW1. In the east ... themselves to the food supplies and spreading lice throughout the trenches. The mud also created health problems for the troops ...

Trenches became valuable to WW1 armies because they were a defensive ... Another common problem among the soldiers was lice. Due to poor hygiene, overcrowding and a lack of fresh clothing, many ...