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> Desperately thirsty men were now drinking contaminated water from old abandoned wells and from the River Modder. ‘Modder’ means ‘mud’ in Afrikaans and Dutch,

> Desperately thirsty men were now drinking contaminated water from old abandoned wells and from the River Modder. ‘Modder’ means ‘mud’ in Afrikaans and Dutch, which certainly doesn't sound like a river you would want to drink from. :)

use-net 7y ago
... but they were tough guys, nothing could hurt them. They were also smart, bringing innovations to the battlefield such as concentration camps. That idea was picked up decades later in continental Europe. Coincidentally, the Brits interned some of the same people in those camps.