life in the trenches

life in the trenches

1. rats

2. shell shock

3. trench foot

4. difficult to clear water when it rained

5. lice

6. equipped with decent weapons

7. rarely had hot food because was cold

8. stretchers go to no mans land

9. received tweets from home

10. boring

11. some drowned because of all the mud

12. bread and biscuits and water mainly

13. officers had better meals

14. disease spread quickly

15. infection if not treated

16. more people died of disease than in battle

17. barbed wire

18. different lines

19. German's main focus was defence when building their trenches

20. night patrols

21. inspections carried out by officers daily

22. were not equipped with good helmets, soft and no protection

23. heavy boots

24. GAS!

25. rifles with bayonets

26. rifle, sniper, machine-gun, shells were main weapons