BY 1915 the worst problem was the rats. They were everywhere.One bloke in our unit woke up with one in his face. They carried disease and were fat. They ussed to eat the flesh of the dead. We would shoot them on sight. Next top to the rats were the chats. The only thing that would get rid of them was a hot fire in the rest camp. The candle wax would keep them in the seems of your dirty uniform. The food we were given was BULLY BEEF which is basically cheap meat in tins given to us for lunch and dinner."Rats are crawling all over the duckboards, the water is coming over the duckboards, the beds are hard and soaking wet and it smells like mould, the shells keep thundering overhead and the worst, the puddles are full of what seems to be human limbs!" this is a quote from a fellow soldier.