Soldiers in the trenches during WWI faced difficult living and working conditions. They started each day with stand to and morning hate before performing inspection, chores like repairing trenches and sandbags, and cycle duties. Life in the trenches involved serving on the front lines under constant shellfire or working in no man's land while only getting brief periods of rest. Disease and pests like rats, lice, and trench foot plagued the men due to the filthy, unsanitary conditions and death was a constant threat.

1. Life in the
Trenches
By: Skye Satz and Jacob Baldwin

2. Daily Routine
 Soldiers started their day with
stand to and morning hate, a
random series of gunshots at
dawn.
 After breakfast, soldiers went
through inspection and chores
 Refilling sandbags
 Repairing the trench
 Draining water and latrines
 Trench cycle duties were
performed
 Ended the day with standing to

3. Trench Cycle
 The front line were the main
shooters while the support
groups stood behind ready for
battle.
 Work in no man’s land
involved repairing barbed wire,
going to listening posts, and
enemy patrol meetings
 Jobs were cycled through
 The men at front would be
relieved at night
 Only 70 days a year might be
at rest

4. Pests and Disease
Rats
 Millions of them, each could have 900 babies a year
 Ate human bodies and could be the size of cats
 Lice
 Cause trench fever
 Recovery took up to 12 weeks
 Frogs
 Found in water (contamination)
 Trench foot
 Fungal problem that often led to amputation
 Smell
 Rotting bodies, latrines, dried sweat, body odor, chloride,
poison gases, cigarette smoke, and cooking food

5. DEATH.
 Death was constant
and common.
 Constant shellfire
killed people at
random in front line
 Men died on their first
day of deployment
 1/3 of casualties were
in the trenches