LIFE FOR THE SOLDIERS IN THE TRENCHES - WW1

LIFE FOR THE SOLDIERS IN THE TRENCHES - WW1

1. RATS

   • Massive Rats; carried disieses and sickness
   • Fed and thrived off dead soldiers
   • Curled next to soldiers for warmth

2. SICKNESS

   • PTS; Post Traumatic Stress; or shell shock was the most common mental illness
   • Gangrene, Trench Foot, Frostbite, and Exhaustion pulled many out of the war
   • Amputation was necessary some times

3. TANKS

   • Invented in 1915
   • Useful towards the end of the war
   • The Germans ran away at the first sight of them

4. NOISE

   • Constant noise; no peace
   • 1915 - 400,000 shells fired by big guns every month
   • Howieters fired shells which exploded into sharpnel

5. WEATHER

   • Generally harsh weather
   • 1916 - 1917 worst winter recorded
   • mud; flooding; sun; cold; snow

6. GAS

   • Chlorine - Suffocated
   • Mustard gas was a slow reaction gas and it rotted the body a few hours after contact
   • The British used soaked pads over their mouths

7. PLANES

   • Dog Fights
   • Red Baron - Respected German pilot brought down 28 planes
   • used mostly for reconaissance

8. BODIES

   • Many bodies had been blown up; gotten rotten or thowen into mass graves
   • Not many bodies could be brought back if they died in NO MAN"S LAND
   • Allies and Germany checked dog tags and sent the soldier back too his home trench

9. DIAGRAM OF A TRENCH LAYOUT

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