Trench coat

soldiers back to their homes. There were numerous cases of soldiers who were discharged even before they sore action. Some of these are dysentery, trench foot and shell shock among others. Dysentery occurs when there is a lack of sanitary precautions, it infects the intestines, causing diarrhoea. More men left the front due to this then the actual fighting. Trench foot is a condition where the foot routes doe to exposure to the cold and damp. This prevents the needed blood and oxygen from…

It was a chilly morning during the middle of the Irish Civil War. I set up my sniper to get ready for the next battle while my allies did the same. We got here early to get the upper hand on our opponents, they won’t expect this. We have to win this war. I went to the nearest rooftop that looked like it provided good coverage. I loaded my gun and did the one thing I could, wait. By the time the sounds of rifles broke the silence and started the battle it was almost midnight. The first death is…

The fascinating thing about trench knives is their overall design reaks brutality and seems to just scream violence. In the modern military everything is sleek, black, and modern, the trench knife was big and brutal. Most people picture the United States M1918 trench knife when the word trench knife is brought up. The trench warfare of the first World War was a violent and brutal place, in between the nerve gas, and the new machine gun, a lot of fighting was done with bayonets, buttstocks, bare…

Mud has become a second layer of my skin, a part me as is death. Lice now call me home, feasting on my decaying body. I am considered to be one of the lucky ones, many of the men have suffered from trench foot. This is an infection that takes over the foot and eats away at the skin. I know that trench foot has taken another victim…

November 26, 1915 The trenches are shallow in some areas and steep in others. The communication trenches are filled with flowing brown, muddy water. Us men are saturated with mud from head to foot and for this reason I hope the weather takes a turn for the better. There has been gun fire over head today but we have not been very involved. I’m sitting here pondering the reasons for why it is that we are fighting this war. If it had not been for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand…

that was responsible for slowing an enemy advance into the trench, carry out sentry duty (night watch for two hours) or relieve a front line (done around every four days but can take several hours). Soldiers didn’t get much sleep, only at night and in the afternoon and only for one hour at a time before being woken up to do more chores. During the day and sometimes at night men are constantly exposed to sniping, shelling, gas attacks or trench raids due to the closeness of the trenches.…

Trench in Batstone Cpt. Jackson “Jackal” von Hoffman, Pvt. Morris Devante , and Pvt. Jim Baker were in their fox hole snow cover the ground and trees were lay all over from German artillery the fox hole was watching the line Jackal was one the .30 call in their foxhole. “I hate Germans right now I would be a t home with my family and friends inside near the fire. About this time we would have had a nice warm diner that didn’t come in a can, and not having to worry about Krout artillery…

All Quiet On The Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque is set in World War I in Germany, where Paul Baumer, a nineteen year old soldier, is assigned to the frontlines. The book tells the story of Paul on the battlefield, his time in the camp where he stays with some of his old classmates, when he is on leave, and in the hospital. Paul tells stories of the horror of the war and how it changed him forever. The author, Erich Maria Remarque, who’s real name was born on July 22, 1898 in Osnabruck,…

The major ‘bump in the road’ of this objective was that an advance would only be very short. Attacking soldiers would find themselves to be be amongst others fighting in an enemy trench system. As early as 1915 british leaders came and decided on a plan that would include large artillery barrages that would intend to dismantle enormous sections of fixed defenses and destroy enemy barbed wire. For example in the Somme these new tactics…

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,…