Frontline trenches were usually about seven feet deep and six feet wide. The front of the trench was known as the parapet. The top two or three feet of the parapet and the parados (the rear side of the trench) would consist of a thick line of sandbags to absorb any bullets or shell fragments.
In a trench of this depth it was impossible to see over the top, so a two or three-foot ledge known as a fire-step, was added. Trenches were not dug in straight lines. Otherwise, if the enemy had a successive offensive, and got into your trenches, they could shoot straight along the line. Each trench was dug with alternate fire-bays and traverses.
Duck-boards were also placed at the bottom of the trenches to protect soldiers from problems such as trench foot. Soldiers also made dugouts and funk holes in the side of the trenches to give them some protection from the weather and enemy fire.
The front-line trenches were also protected by barbed-wire entanglements and machine-gun posts. Short trenches called saps were dug from the front-trench into No-Man's Land. The sap-head, usually about 30 yards forward of the front-line, were then used as listening posts.
Behind the front-line trenches were support and reserve trenches. The three rows of trenches covered between 200 and 500 yards of ground. Communication trenches, were dug at an angle to the frontline trench and was used to transport men, equipment and food supplies.
The Germans built the first trenches. They didn't want to loose land that they had already captured. This meant they were able to choose the better ground, and invested more time in their trenches. The Germans built the first trenches. They didn't want to loose land that they had already captured. This meant they were able to choose the better ground, and invested more time in their trenches.
During World War I, trenches were built at nearly every point in front of which an enemy force was located -- or was expected to be located -- wherever the terrain would allow them to be constructed. It should be noted that front-line trenches were also typically supported by trenches behind the front lines, which were utilized for supply, communication, and assembly purposes.
the soldiers in the war as they needed somewhere to be safe and to sleep
Trench systems were constructed by German , Russian , British and American combatants .
who made the trenches
The soldiers built the trenches.
After the Battle of Marne in 1914.
The Panama Canal was built by digging out a large trench in Panama for boats to travel through. This ditch-like trench would be supported by many locks.
The last time I was at the memorial trench, I will told the remaining bayonets had been stolen. This was the spring on 2018. I first visited the trench in the late 1960's the bayonets were sticking up out of the ground. No building had been built to protect the trench from the weather. It was just as it has been during the Great War. Today everything changes.kap73p
Fire steps were built on the parapet (side of the trench facing the enemy) which allowed soldiers to step up and fire over the tops of the trench.
communication trench links the front line and first support line trench supports trench.
A trench stretch is a long system of trench.
The Panama Canal was built by digging out a large trench in Panama for boats to travel through. This ditch-like trench would be supported by many locks.
they built trenches for procetion and they used it as a base.
The last time I was at the memorial trench, I will told the remaining bayonets had been stolen. This was the spring on 2018. I first visited the trench in the late 1960's the bayonets were sticking up out of the ground. No building had been built to protect the trench from the weather. It was just as it has been during the Great War. Today everything changes.kap73p
most combatants at that time NEVER built straight trench's. 1. If a shell struck in to the trench, the shrapnel would go flying everywhere in the trench if it was in a straight line, the "curve" in the trench would deflect the shrapnel. 2. if part of the trench was overrun, resistance could still continue with a zigzag trench. If it was in a straight line, enemy soldiers could just fire there guns in a straight line and kill everyone easily.
communication trench links the front line and first support line trench supports trench.
Fire steps were built on the parapet (side of the trench facing the enemy) which allowed soldiers to step up and fire over the tops of the trench.
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Trench guns, first used in the first world war may also be referred to as combat shotguns, riot shotguns, trench shotguns, bayonets, muskets or blunderbusses.
communication trench links the front line and first support line trench supports trench.
No, trench foot was first noted by Napoleon's army in 1812. It was made more well known during the trench warfares of World War I, but it was not new at that time.
First off, its Mariana Trench, and it is at 11,033 meters (36,201 feet) deep
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