Zusammenfassung der Ressource
life in the trenches
- rats
- shell shock
- trench foot
- difficult to clear water when it rained
- lice
- equipped with decent weapons
- rarely had hot food because
was cold
- stretchers go to no
mans land
- received tweets
from home
- boring
- some drowned because
of all the mud
- bread and biscuits and
water mainly
- officers had better
meals
- disease spread quickly
- infection if not treated
- more people died of
disease than in battle
- barbed wire
- different lines
- German's main focus
was defence when
building their trenches
- night patrols
- inspections carried out
by officers daily
- were not equipped with
good helmets, soft and no
protection
- heavy boots
- GAS!
- rifles with
bayonets
- rifle, sniper, machine-gun, shells were main
weapons