World War 1 Trench Life/Warfare
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The document summarizes life in the trenches for soldiers during World War 1. It describes the boredom of daily life in the trenches, punctuated by moments of terror from bombardment and attacks. Trench warfare was characterized by squalid living conditions with rats, lice, and disease. Soldiers suffered from physical ailments like trench foot and shell shock. Christmas 1914 saw a spontaneous ceasefire and fraternization between British and German soldiers in some areas of the front.
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- 1. “Months of boredom punctuated by moments of extreme terror.”
- 2. The average day in the ordinary bit of the trenches was just doing nothing! Except perhaps filling a few sandbags to strengthen a bit of the parapet of the trench. But of course there had to be always somebody on sentry go all the time, on each section of the trench. Apart from that, trench life was extremely dull. You simply slept and wrote letters, except when you were on that sort of duty. – James Pratt Our life was this: from the beginning of the day until the night, we were eating – sometimes some bread, chocolate, cheese – and smoking, firing at the Germans. Sometimes we received a few bombs. And that was the life. – French Soldier
- 3. Your feet swell to two to three times their normal size and go completely dead. You can stick a bayonet into them and not feel a thing. If you are lucky enough not to lose your feet and the swelling starts to go down, it is then that the most indescribable agony begins. (Harry Robert).Rats and Lice were also a problem. • Typhoid • Influenza • Trench Fever • Trench Foot
- 4. Often mistaken for cowardice. Soldiers would be shot for not going over the top. Shell Shock was unfamiliar to many doctors. Well I just thought it was a failure of life itself, the failure of the mind to take the enormous depression that it had got. If you are standing under a bombardment for so long and you‟re seeing fellows going up in the air and you‟ve got to stick it for a couple or three days it isn‟t funny. I don‟t think they were cowards at all; any man that went up there if he was a coward he wouldn‟t have gone, he‟d have done anything not to go up there. – British Private
- 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAA9Z VgZauA Trench Slang “Gone West” – A term for a soldier who had died. “Brass Hat” – Enlisted men‟s term for an officer. “Belly Flopping” – To hit the ground quickly during an attack. “Elephant” – Small dug-out with sheets of corrugated iron. “Gunfire” – Strong tea, usually laced with rum.
- 7. Usually took place at night. A line of soldiers would dig about 10 feet deep. If the water levels were too high they would make above ground trenches using sandbags. Soldiers would decorate sandbags to look like soldiers.
- 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciq9ts0 2ci4 Machine guns and artillery devastated the enemy. Brutal hand to hand combat in the trenches. There were more trenches to take after the first one.
- 11. Chlorine gas – First used Phosgene gas – More potent than chlorine. Mustard gas – Most popular gas during the war.
- 13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOz9SpWc_yE We were in the front line; we were about 300 yards from the Germans. On Christmas Eve, we‟d been singing carols and this that and the other, and the Germans had been doing the same. And we‟d been shouting to each other, sometimes rude remarks more often just joking remarks. Anyway, eventually a German said, „Tomorrow you no shoot, we no shoot.‟ And the morning came and we didn‟t shoot and they didn‟t shoot. – British Private • Christmas trees were set up. • Gifts were exchanged. • A few troops even played soccer together.
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