Throughout the war, the conditions in the trenches contributed heavily to the negative nature of trench warfare. Source 3.2 outlines just one of these aspects of the conditions in the trenches, mud. Written by Sergeant P Boyd of the allied forces, the source expresses how the mud consumed the soldiers in every aspect of their life, and that it was inescapable. The primary source quotes “I have known those who can face enemy barrage without flinching, who still shiver at the memory of their experiences in the mud of Flanders”, expressing the feeling that mud caused the soldiers extreme misery all through the war and was more of a primary enemy then the other side. As this source was written in 1918, at the conclusion of the war, it can be said
