Today in 1915, Walter and his friends and family are certain that this year will bring victory for the Allied Forces. He just hopes it doesn’t happen before he gets a chance to put his long months of training into action… Reports are coming in from his sister Rose, who is nursing aboard a French ambulance train, about the constant rain which is making trench life nearly impossible, about soldiers who have gone for eleven weeks without a wash and about a strange condition affecting the men’s feet… Meanwhile, back home, Britain has suffered its first Zeppelin attack, the Government is threatening conscription, the original ‘Lassie’ the dog has saved a sailor’s life and Ma has found an advert for ‘meat lozenges’ to send out to hungry servicemen.

This is not a summary from history book, but from a Facebook page posting from 1915.....

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