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Mind Map by Nisha Clarke, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Nisha Clarke
over 10 years ago
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LIFE FOR THE SOLDIERS IN THE
TRENCHES - WW1
- RATS
- Massive Rats; carried disieses and sickness
- Fed and thrived off dead soldiers
- Curled next to soldiers for warmth
- Massive Rats; carried disieses and sickness
- 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
- PTS; Post Traumatic Stress; or shell shock was the most common mental illness
- TANKS
- Invented in 1915
- Useful towards the end of the war
- The Germans ran away at the first sight of them
- Invented in 1915
- NOISE
- Constant noise; no peace
- 1915 - 400,000 shells fired by big guns every month
- Howieters fired shells which exploded into sharpnel
- Constant noise; no peace
- WEATHER
- Generally harsh weather
- 1916 - 1917 worst winter recorded
- mud; flooding; sun; cold; snow
- Generally harsh weather
- 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
- Chlorine - Suffocated
- PLANES
- Dog Fights
- Red Baron - Respected German pilot brought down 28 planes
- used mostly for reconaissance
- Dog Fights
- 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
- Many bodies had been blown up; gotten rotten or thowen into mass graves
- DIAGRAM OF A TRENCH LAYOUT
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