I wish you could see us, We are wet through continually and are mud from head to foot. There is no opportunity of drying or cleaning oneself until we get out of the tron ches. By then the mud is an inch deep and beaten into the fibre of your clothes. 1 wear a burberry continually, even sleeping in it very often, in spite of the wet mud on it.
does at least keep one's coat
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