Dead in a ditch

Dead boy soldier in a ditch

Dead kid-soldier in a ditch.

Dead boy soldierPictures like the one above and the one right could be made everywhere, not only in the western countries.
For instance: According to travellers there was scarcely a town or school in Russia from which boys did not run away to the war.
Hundreds of Russian girls went off in boy`s clothes and tried to pass themselves off as boys and enlist as volunteers.
Many of these kids ended their life like the boys on these pictures.



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