nice tartan,
wearing the kilt opposed to trousers ..wool anything will keep you alive even when wet -jean/cotton'll killt you ! Wool can even feel warm when wet far as socks up . Walking wise trousers/pants "pull" on you over course of a day at end you feel the fatigue . Trenchfoot is just fact of wet feet, standing in a water filled trench or -not walking slow circulation lead to cold and amputations . I heard of somebody with mustard gas ..I'll my Uncle his father was a blacksmith in WW1 ..maybe my Auntie will mind what her Dad said . Barring that I'll ask Uncle ..
ROSS RIFLE Canadina longarm disasterously malfunctioned due to tight machining tolerances though ingenious many poor men lost their lives and were seen apparently trying to pogo stick their actions open welded shut by dirt and maybe rust .
1 in 3 men in Scotland died in WW1 -"lest we forget" .
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