Conditions+in+Gallipoli

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=Food and water= =Rats in trenches= In summer the ANZACs also had to contend with swarms of flies. Not only were they annoying, they were quickly spreading disease by spending half of their time on the rotten leftover food and human excrement and the other half of their time on open wounds and decaying corpses. This brought about infestations of maggots. Dysentery and a number of other diseases raged as a result of inadequate diet and impure water
 * Australian troops were not effected too badly by the climate when they first arrived at Gallipoli as it was spring, but when the cooler weather arrived
 * they were not used to such cold conditions.
 * the freezing blizzards and frost that removed the soldiers most from their comfort zone. Most of them had previously spent their days under the Australian sun.
 * Rain on the peninsula proved to be yet another climatic challenge for the ANZACs. Torrential rainstorms flooded the trenches and made the battlefields resemble dams of mud. For the Allies' opposition,
 * the Turks, the climate and weather patterns were not an issue as they were accustomed to the conditions
 * are basic necessities would have been luxuries had they been available to the ANZACs at Gallipoli.
 * In Gallipoli, however, clean water was not abundant, even in the spring months. Wells did not last long which meant that water had to be shipped in.
 * Even when it was available, however, the soldiers were often **rationed** to only two quarts of water a day (equivalent to about 2.3 litres). This was usually drunk in the form of tea. So as not to waste any precious water, leftover tea was used for shaving
 * Food, although it was not usually a rare commodity, was not varied. The ANZACs' primary diet consisted of **bully beef** (a type of canned meat), hard biscuits, some tea and sugar and some jam. Small quantities of bread sometimes came through, with bacon and cheese also being made available at times. Vegetables were scarce.
 * The Turkish diet was not much better, with staples of bread and olives. Fortunately for them, their position allowed them to have access to fresh vegetables
 * It is remarkable then, that with so little variation and nutrition in their diet, the ANZACs had the strength to fight in such difficult conditions. //See image 3//
 * The rats were particularly unpleasant for two reasons. Firstly, they would often move from eating the leftover remnants of food in the discarded tins that had been thrown into no man's land to feed on the stored supplies in the dug-outs.
 * Secondly, the soldiers had to see the rats eat the eyeballs of decaying comrades before the rodents moved on to devour the decomposed flesh.