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Some of the artifacts of First World War trench warfare at the Imperial War Museum of the North (IWM North) in Manchester are J.R.R. Tolkien's revolver, a periscope, a pair of binoculars, the British Army 55th Division "They win or die who wear the red rose of Lancashire" emblem, an Adrian steel helmet, and various poison gas shells. As dangerous as gas, artillery, machine guns and other weapons were, an under-acknowledged killer was disease -- trench foot, infected wounds, dirty water and food poisoning among other issues must have claimed the lives of thousands of soldiers.

Description
Some of the artifacts of First World War trench warfare at the Imperial War Museum of the North (IWM North) in Manchester are J.R.R. Tolkien's revolver, a periscope, a pair of binoculars, the British Army 55th Division "They win or die who wear the red rose of Lancashire" emblem, an Adrian steel helmet, and various poison gas shells. As dangerous as gas, artillery, machine guns and other weapons were, an under-acknowledged killer was disease -- trench foot, infected wounds, dirty water and food poisoning among other issues must have claimed the lives of thousands of soldiers.