Throughout the war, Dubliners served and died on fronts and in conditions very different to France and Belgium, and different even to Gallipoli. They experienced extremes of weather, including great heat and monsoons. Drinking water could be scarce, and the terrain unfamiliar. They contended with diseases previously unknown to them and which often proved to be greater hazards – or at least more persistent and costly – than enemy action. Yet features of these fronts were also similar to some conditions on the Western Front: cold, wet and mud.