2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers in the trenches at La Boutillerie, winter 1914, 1915. 7th Division.
As the war dragged on into winter the British army scrambled to find cold weather clothing for its soldiers at the front. Until suitable quantities of winter uniforms could be manufactured troops improvised with goat and sheep skins, as seen above.
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