The weight carried with the 1908 equipment is given as 59 lb 11 oz. Edmonds, the historian of the official account of the War, states that in 1916 this had been increased to 66 lb. later as more and more items were added the soldier carried 74 lb in summer and 80 lb in winter, increased in wet and muddy conditions by 14 lb. So by the end of the War in 1918 the infantryman could be carrying 85% of his own weight, described by Major Renbourn as "the greatest weight known in history."