Digital War Archive

The most interesting thing I thing i discovered while searching through the archive, was an interview with Thomas McIndoe on the problem of rats while living in the trenches. The rats would carry away the soldiers' belongings within the trenches. They would take candles or sticks the soldiers used to hang up the coats that were sticking out of the walls or in the ground. The rats would also feed on the dead that lay on the ground and the iron rations given to the soldiers for food.

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/1793?CISOBOX=1&REC=2