LIFE IN THE TRENCHES

LIFE IN THE TRENCHES

1. FOOD

   • Lack of food
     • Ate dead rats and human bodies
   • No food because they are all rotten

2. HEALTH AND HYGIENE

   • No shower
   • Rats everywhere
     • Diseases
   • Lack of medicine and food
     • Lack of energy

3. TRENCH SYSTEM

   • The trench system is separated into 4 parts - Communication trench , Front line trench, Support trench and Reserve trench
   • Concrete block house on the machine guns for protection
   • Long range artillery placed behind the Front line trench about 10 apart
   • Barbed wires an impassible obstacle for enemies to pass through

4. OTHERS

   • Get ready for gas attacks

5. LIVING CONDITIONS

   • Diseases
     • Trench foot
     • Shell shock
     • Lice
     • Rat infestation
   • Lack of food
   • Lived in damp conditons
   • Lived in cramped holes
   • Water floods

6. UNIFORM AND WEAPONS

   • Artillery
   • Tied bayonet on a rifle
   • Gas attaks
     • Gas masks
   • Had uniform to change every week (did not work