Trench

Britain and Australia. This battle eventually resulted in trench warfare with 700 kilometres of zig zag trenches spread from the “Swiss Frontier to the English Channel, cutting across northern France and into southern Belgium.” This trench warfare started a stalemate and was home to some of the most gruesome suffering and horrible conditions that soldiers have ever been faced with. Construction of the trenches: The standard British trench was dug 3 metres wide at the top, 1.5 metres wide at the…

World War I (WWI or WW1), was a global war triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. It was a major, historical war in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and ended on 11 November 1918. HISTORY.com (2015). More than 8 million soldiers killed and 20 million wounded as a result of the war Keith, L. pbs.org (2006) , a casualty rate aggravated by nations ' technological and industrial inventions, accompanied by battle tactics. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in history,…

Have you ever heard of the largest trench in World War I? Well it is called the western front. Trenches such as the western front are very important, especially during World War I. There are many topics under the western front, such as structure, Christmas 1914,the results, how terrible the trenches were, and protection. Have you ever thought about the structure of the western front? They built the trench zigzagged. It took them a long time to build it; in fact, it took them two years…

Did you know that about 200,000 people died in trenches during WW1? According to Britannica, trench warfare is, "Warfare in which opposing armed forces attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of trenches dug into the ground." Trenches are long dug-out ditches in the ground used to protect soldiers from new weaponry. The Carlisle Army website informs, "On the Western Front, Germany, Austria, and Hungary faced down the Allies, France and Britain over barbed-wired…

rifle against the edge of the trench, he fired into no man’s land. Bullets whistled over his head; he ducked below the trench, loading a new cartridge with shaking hands, his mind numbed…

the only way to stay in the trenches was to put dead soldiers. Oh, how it hurts me that I stood on my friends all this time. Being in the trenches with wet ground and dead bodies brought a lot of diseases. The diseases influenza, trench foot, typhoid, and trench fever almost got me sickened. There is also this deadly new thing called poison gas that came out. Poison gas was one of our enemies. After it came to your body it just ate up you skin, man you will not stand. Even the gas…

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…

The lives of men in war are completely different than any ordinary day for someone not in war. They face many things that regular people couldn’t cope with. They have to worry about loud noises; the machine guns, diseases, and exploding artillery shells that often caused them to panic and lose their bearings. They only went forward because they were carried on by the force of the soldiers around them. Soldiers in war also lived with the persistent presence of death and watching people they loved…

In occupied areas the consistent shellfire coordinated by the adversary brought irregular demise, whether their casualties were relaxing in a trench or lying in a burrow. Numerous men passed on their first day in the trenches as a result of an absolutely pointed expert sharpshooter 's shot. Beside foe wounds, ailment fashioned a substantial toll. Rats in their millions swarmed trenches. Glutting…

When soldiers employed these professional techniques they still battled the trench environment to no avail. Examining the men’s responses to these methods conveys their unsuitability. Private R. Read of the London Regiment stated that his gumboots regularly flooded. This was because the mud was ‘so tenacious that even gum boots are no use.’ Certain trenches were so muddy that boots were completely sucked into the thick slush. Lieutenant James Butlin of the Dorsetshire Regiment remembered ‘when…