Gallipoli Range of Diseases |
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consequence of the unrelenting stress of the trenches was that men gave little thought
to hygiene, allowing themselves, and others, to be over-run by lice which could carry
diseases such as trench fever and typhus.
Some became so desperate to escape that they mutilated themselves, in a number of cases, shooting themselves in the foot or the hand. Others ended the tension, and often their lives, by engaging their Turkish counterparts in gun and grenade battles. Many men later spoke of these diseases. Of the men who survived the Gallipoli Campaign, many were to be profoundly disturbed by what they had experienced for the remainder of their lives.
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