These trenches aren't nice places to stand but sometimes that's all we can do, especially if we are under attack. Our boots can get filled with water - and sometimes there are stinky leaks from the latrine, which makes them really muddy and soggy. Our boots keep some of it out but when it's bad, it goes right through them and our socks. It makes our feet freezing cold and wet. My friend had it really bad last month. He had been standing in a soaking trench for so long that his socks started to sort of grow on to his foot. It became infected and horrid. He's at the clearing station now. It's a bit like a hospital. They might have to send him away to a proper hospital though. Someone even said he might lose his leg. Those pesky rats! We can't