Zusammenfassung der Ressource
LIFE IN THE
TRENCHES
- FOOD
- Lack of food
- Ate dead rats and human bodies
- No food because they are all rotten
- HEALTH AND HYGIENE
- No shower
- Rats everywhere
- Diseases
- Lack of medicine and food
- Lack of energy
- TRENCH SYSTEM
- The trench system is separated into 4 parts -
Communication trench , Front line trench, Support trench
and Reserve trench
- Concrete block house on the machine guns for protection
- Long range artillery placed behind the Front line trench about 10 apart
- Barbed wires an impassible obstacle for enemies to pass through
- OTHERS
- Get ready for gas attacks
- LIVING CONDITIONS
- Diseases
- Trench foot
- Shell shock
- Lice
- Rat infestation
- Lack of food
- Lived in damp conditons
- Lived in cramped holes
- Water floods
- UNIFORM AND WEAPONS
- Artillery
- Tied bayonet on a rifle
- Gas attaks
- Gas masks
- Had uniform to change every week (did not work