Trench

Christmas Truce I smile. For the first time in my few weeks here, I smile. I run to look over the steep, mud wall of the trench and through the dirtied barbed wire. Men from both sides of the ravaged field are walking towards each other. Not towards the onslaught which usually comes with an expedition to No-Mans’ Land, but towards each other with open arms. I hoist myself over the trench wall, I have always expected going over the top to be the last moments of my life. It still could be, but I’m thankful it’s not today. I join my comrades in gradually walking towards the slow moving wall of German soldiers. Whilst walking I notice something odd: we’re walking across a French field, once cropland, consumed by craters and corpses, and all I can hear is laughter and chatter, as if it is a usual Christmas morning and all are in high spirits; as if we aren’t walking towards the men who had shot and shelled us throughout the previous weeks. Ultimately we arrive at more or less the centremost point of the hellish grassland. There’s a pause as the two screens of men stand opposite to each other, the silence is swiftly broken by one of my colleagues…

disease, and death are a crucial aspect of World War One. Trench Warfare and ships seemed to be the most impacted. Trench warfare is a form of combat in which opposing sides fight a few hundred yards away in trenches that face each other. Soldier’s living conditions in the trench were insufferable. Ships involved in the Great War were overcrowded and meals become intolerable for the soldiers. Diseases and medicine were an everyday situation for soldiers. There were multiple diseases that…

Dear Mother and Father, Last time I talked to y'all, I was in a trench on the battlefield, and now I am in a hospital in France. It all started out when I was in the Firing Trench, which is the first trench on the battlefield and is right behind No Man’s Land. It is 45 yards in front of the Cover Trench, and it is where we fire at the Germans. The trench has a dugout, duckboards, and firesteps. In the dugout, all the soldiers ate, slept, and rested before battle. Since there were so many people,…

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WWI: Trench Warfare World War 1, also known as the “ Great War”, was a global conflict that lasted from July 28, 1914 to November 11,1918. It was a battle between the Central Powers ( Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey) and the Allies ( France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan and the U.S who later joined in 1917) caused by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The Great War also lead to the fall for each of the Central Powers and a Russian rebellion. Furthermore, Trench warfare…

Trench warfare was a war tactic used in World War I that helped military men defend themselves. It also was for their own protection, but of course there were still many fatalities. Was it a good war tactic? No, and here is why. It was designed to help make the war progress with greater speed but all it did was cause a stalemate. Trench warfare started on the Western Front on September 15th, 1914. The first trenches were first used in the First Battle of the Marne when both sides of troops…

These past couple of months have been rough lately out here in the war, it is not as easy as I thought it would be out here. In fact, trench warfare is terrible, the conditions here are deadly, you can die without someone else killing you. I’m at the point where I am so scared and just want to be back home because of the constant fear. I can never sleep at night either, every time I do the constant heavy fire of enemy attacks wake me up from my sleep then I have to be hiding in fear that an…

1. What were the trenches? Why was the system of the trench employed? Trench warfare is said to have begun in September 1914 but the idea of the trench warfare did not begin then, trenches had been used in the U.S civil war, and the Russian-Japanese war. The trenches were the front lines, the most dangerous places to be. Behind the front lines was a mass supply of many things like training establishment’s stores, workshops, Head-quarters and many other elements that would be needed in a 1918…

Life in the European trenches and its effects on the diggers Life in the European trenches and trench warfare is strongly associated with World War 1, when it was employed on the Western Front from September 1914 until the last weeks of the war. By the end of October 1914 the whole front in Belgium and France had solidified into lines of trenches. Trench warfare occurred when a revolution in firepower was not matched by similar advances in mobility, resulting in a grueling form of warfare in…

No Man's Land was a place both armies would used to patrol, repair, or add barbed wire to their front lines.Trench warfare had a massive impact on soldiers as it caused huge amounts of casualties on the battlefield and also caused health problems because the battlefield was infested with rats and lice. Trench warfare is when holes are built into the ground and sandbags are placed around the holes as a protective barrier. When using trench warfare, the soldiers would shoot from the holes they had…