Soldiers usually had tea, biscuits and tinned beef for dinner. Daily life involved the Stand-To-Arms, meaning to be on high-alert for enemy attack. Soldiers had to clean and inspect their weapons, fill up sandbags, dig trenches, consolidate the trench floor and the walls, fix communication cables, put up barbed wire, transfer supplies, food rations and new equipment, observe enemy activities and movements, go patrolling, remove the dead bodies and the wounded from the trenches and from no man's land. They had to live with the constant danger of enemy attacks, shrapnel shells and snipers, the sound of artillery bombardments which sometimes resulted in soldiers suffering from a breakdown (mental collapse) known as "shell shock", the death or injury of close friends and the dangers of poison gas attacks. Men had to rest and sleep during the day, they enjoyed playing card games and they wrote letters or postcards to their families.
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haversack and kit
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