In 1914 Australian men went out to sign up for war many not knowing what they were signing up for. The Australian troops had a tough life on the Western Front as they had to face horrid conditions not only fighting and risking lives for their country but living in places where you get bad trench conditions including trench foot and fever, have pests which bring diseases and steal your food, have health problems and not able to treat them as there isn’t much aid for everyone to be treated.
The Australian Troops who lived in the trenches had to suffer the deafening sound of canon fire and the artillery but also many illnesses such as trench fever where they get a very high temperature, constant diarrhoea which made them weak and listless and not able to fight. The biggest problem was trench feet which was a fungal infection of feet caused by cold, wet and unsanitary trench conditions from all the mud that they had to walk through which lead it to the foot rotting inside and having to cut the foot off. Trench foot was more of a problem at the start of trench warfare as they didn’t have a cure for it. Lice were a never ending problem as they would breed in seams of filthy clothing and cause men to itch increasingly, even though men tried to wash out to clothes to get rid of them they would remain hidden inside. In result of this many men chose to shave …show more content…
Many soldiers have a hard time getting enough food and water in their system as the is only a bit of food for everyone to have, which would sometimes lead it to them getting obese or dying from hunger and have no energy to fight. Diseases were a big problem in WW1 due to the fact that there was little medicine and medical knowledge. There were a variety of diseases such as influenza, typhoid, trench foot and fever and diabetes were present during the
The Australian Troops who lived in the trenches had to suffer the deafening sound of canon fire and the artillery but also many illnesses such as trench fever where they get a very high temperature, constant diarrhoea which made them weak and listless and not able to fight. The biggest problem was trench feet which was a fungal infection of feet caused by cold, wet and unsanitary trench conditions from all the mud that they had to walk through which lead it to the foot rotting inside and having to cut the foot off. Trench foot was more of a problem at the start of trench warfare as they didn’t have a cure for it. Lice were a never ending problem as they would breed in seams of filthy clothing and cause men to itch increasingly, even though men tried to wash out to clothes to get rid of them they would remain hidden inside. In result of this many men chose to shave …show more content…
Many soldiers have a hard time getting enough food and water in their system as the is only a bit of food for everyone to have, which would sometimes lead it to them getting obese or dying from hunger and have no energy to fight. Diseases were a big problem in WW1 due to the fact that there was little medicine and medical knowledge. There were a variety of diseases such as influenza, typhoid, trench foot and fever and diabetes were present during the