hardened-mud

Updated: August 11, 2026

There were attacks and counter-attacks, hand-to-hand fights in communication trenches with bombs and bayonets, heavy bombardments, nightly burial parties. Tommy Atkins looked like a beast. His clothing was a hardened-mud casing; his body was the color of the sticky Flanders clay in which he lived; but his soul was clean and fine.

James Norman Hall - Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army