Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Living in the
Trenches
- Daily Death
- Shellfire directed by the enemy resulted in random death
- Disease wrought a
heavy toll
- Novice cautioned against the inclination to peer
over the parapet of the trenches into No Man's Land
Land
- Rat Infestation
- Millions of rats infested the trenches
- Brown rat were feared most
- They fed on human remains
- No Man's Land
- Two sets opposing trenches called No Man's Land
- No solider traverse the distant, they feared of being attacked
- Climate really wet, mud bath
- So thick you could disappear
- Conditions
- Lice and Worse
- Lice bred were in seams of filthy clothing
- Lice caused trench fever
- Recovery time twelve weeks
- Trench Foot
- Could result in amputation
- Cold wet and insanitary conditions