What did the soldiers stand on to keep out of the mud at war??

Question

What did the soldiers stand on to keep out of the mud at war??

Answer 1

Nothing, unless it was improvised. (used burlap food bags filled with sand, stacked empty ammo cans, etc.) They ate, slept, marched, chanted cadence, crawled, prayed, preyed, played, worked, laughed, lived, fought, killed, cried, and died in the mud. May God bless them all, and may the rest of us show gratitude to them all.

Answer 2

Some got very creative and would use spent howitzer and cannon shells. But, for many, they were in trench water

Answer 3

If you're talking about WW ! in the trenches, they had duckboards to stand on - http://www.harris-academy.com/department...

In the case of the Battle of Passchendaele, the state of the ground was so waterlogged it became known as the “battle in the mud”. Stepping away from the directed safe route through the mud could result in being drowned in it: those unlucky soldiers who began to sink into it sometimes begged their comrades to shoot them, as this was preferable to being suffocated in filth.