What was some hardships faced in the trenches?

Answer 1

Some of the main difficulties about living in a trenche were:

You were away from everyone your family and friends and had nobody to talk to.

For the soldiers in the trenches experienced moods such as boredom, anxiety, uncertainty and especially discomfort.

The weather also affected everyone and everything in the trenches, if it was raining the water would come up knee deep. In winter the mud would freeze as hard as a rock and in summer it would bake in blistering heat.

The soldiers had their feet in water most of the time and this could cause trenche feet which is when your feet swell up to two or three times their normal size and eventually die and start to rot. This brought a great deal of pain to the soldiers and the best way to deal with it was to have their feet cut off.

Whilst asleep during the night the soldiers would normally get rats crawling round them and making noises making it hard for the soldiers to get to sleep. A way they dealt with it was lying on their backs and wait for a rat to get on their legs then violently heave their legs up so that the rat gets thrown away.

And if they got out of the trenche they were most likely to get shot.

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Answer 2

the trenches were designed to be strong and disastrous if an enemy attacked but the terrible state of mud, infestations and disease led to soldiers having to live a very unpleasent 4 years