The battlefield became one large charnel house littered with bodies in various states of decomposition, as it was rarely easy to cover and bury the dead. Repeated, fanatical and suicidal attacks were thrown at the british, indian and gurka defenders and counter attacks. Soldiers dug in on either side had to live through tarrential rain and eat shit and sleep in their trenches. Flies swarmed everywhere and multiplied with incredible speed. Men wretched as they dug in. The stench of death was gut wrenching. Major john nettlefield observedqte, the place stank. And general slim actually says that the battle for kohema is the only one he