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What strikes me the most are how short the soldiers are. In most photos with standing soldiers, they look to me as not fully grown children.
by zvrba 6y ago
What strikes me the most are how short the soldiers are. In most photos with standing soldiers, they look to me as not fully grown children.
- fiftyacorn 6y agoIts interesting the impact of child hood malnutrition on the British soldiers which resulted in the officers being a taller than the men so we're easy to pick off
- aaron695 6y agoEveryone was shorter 100 years ago. Bad nutrition stunts height and IQ. https://time.com/4423803/how-tall-100-years-height/ https://time.com/4423803/how-tall-100-years-height/
- zvrba 6y ago> Everyone was shorter 100 years ago. Yeah, I knew that. But it's one thing to read about it and see the numbers and another to see in real photos. :)
- perl4ever 6y agoBad nutrition or just less protein? I say this because I was just looking at another thread where people were arguing about whether a vegetarian diet is suitable for humans. And I vaguely remember reading about how average height increases in a given society as meat becomes more available and less of a luxury.
- watwut 6y agoPlenty were quite young. Not children, but teenagers (15 even 14 sometimes)