Unbelievably horrible.
If the trench wasn't frozen, it was a festering sewer, with deep mud, human waste, rats that would actually eat a defenseless injured man and just about any disease you'd care to name running rampant through it.
If you didn't change your soaked socks often enough you got Trenchfoot, which kills tissue. (Your feet rot off)
If you spent any time looking up over the edge to see the churned, blasted outside world, you were shot by enemy snipers.
Poison gas was used by both sides - which killed you at worst, and maimed you permanently at best.
In France where most of the fighting took place, the trenches were cut into the surrounding farmland, so the bacteria that lives in manure (fertilizer) was everywhere in the soil.
Wounds often resulted in what was called "Gas Gangrene", which was caused by this bacteria. The injured part (like your whole leg) would turn green and swell up as it began to decompose.
In between times, you would be required to charge the enemy trenches in large attacks.
The new wonder weapon - the Machine Gun - could kill thousands of men at once. Tens of thousands of soldiers were cut down by machine-gun fire during charges.
WWI has a good claim to have the most terrible conditions under which any war was ever fought.
- S.M.
every one died, and was able to say there goodbyes to family members :(
There were electric light in German trenches in WW1 because they were more advanced and had better trenches than the British.
fighting in trenches
November 1914
Barbed wire was used to protect the trenches.
You can learn about what life was like in the trenches during WW1 by looking to the links below .
There were electric light in German trenches in WW1 because they were more advanced and had better trenches than the British.
they fought in the trenches ww1 was known as a war in the trenches
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Trenches used in WW1
fighting in trenches
November 1914
Barbed wire was used to protect the trenches.
rats and dead bodies
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