WW1 Trench Warfare

Difficult to say about the strategic bit. Certainly the Marne & the Somme, the Aisne too. Verdun is in the valley of the Meuse. The Isonzo in northern Italy saw much fighting, notably at Caporetto.

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I believe during the Battle of Gallelopi(SP?)

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25 April 1915 would be the common answer, although there may be a case for the Boer War (in which Australian fought in the British services). With that caveat:

Trench warfare was first used by the Australians at Gallipoli during WW1. In fact, this was the first combat seen by Australian soldiers as an Australian Army, Australia having been declared a country rather than a UK Colony on 1 January 1901 ("Federation").

In a nutshell, Gallipoli was part of the Dardenelles campaign to capture what is now Instanbul. The main combatants were the Turks and some German advisors one side, and the Australians and New Zealanders (collectively the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, or ANZACS) French, Indian, Newfoundland and Briitish troops on the other.

According to the Australian Department Of Veterans Affairs, there were over 392,000 causalties on both sides.

The date of the first landings was 25 April 1915. This date is commemorated each year as ANZAC Day, a national day of rememberance for all the fallen in Australia and New Zealand. For Australia, those fallen include those in the service of the British Army before Federation through to current casualties in Afghanistan.

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They really were in a rock and a hard place. Truly amazing and worth the research if you are so inclined.

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The Australian War Memorial has details of this and other campaigns on line www.awm.gov.au

Because if you went to go get a fallen soldier, the enemy didn't really care and they still fired at you, so you had to risk your life in order to bury a dead soldier.

I think it was January 1916

Because the soldier's corpses were covered in rats - so they smelt very bad, along with the temperature affecting the smell too. And also because the rats breed the most in the summer - so the trenches were rat infested.

The British decided to first destroy German defenses to the east with a massive artillery bombardment. Then, after the British had overcome the initial German defenses, two cavalry divisions would be sent in to finish off the Germans.

mainly because France's aim was to get the Germans to get off their land so their trenches didnt look like they had effort put into them coz they were constantly trying to move them forward but the German's were like naa lets just sit here be annoying and make our trenches nice till the french get tierd and then move a step forward.

From Wikipedia's article on the Battle of the Somme:

Strength13 British and 11 French divisions (initial)

51 British and 48 French divisions (final)10½ divisions (initial)

50 divisions (final)Casualties and losses623,907 casualties

100 tanks lost,

782 aircraft lost[5]465,000 - 595,294 men

This is somewhat incomplete, as only the British/French side has an accounting of material losses, and the number of soldiers in a division isn't explicitly defined, though the article on military divisions says that number ranges from 10 to 30 thousand.

In the First World War between 1 July and 18 November 1916

A sub machine gun fires pistol ammunition. A light machine gun fires rifle ammunition and is usually fired using a support (unless you are Rambo).

Also, a submachine gun (SMG) is lightweight and is meant to be carried around. However, a light machine gun (LMG) has a stance and is meant to be placed at one spot, as is a sniper rifle, and the LMG stays there and waits for an enemy, as does the sniper rifle. An SMG is meant to be run around because of their high recoil, or kick; the closer you are to someone, the less effect the kick has. The LMG is a very heavy weapon, but it has low recoil; still, it makes a difference from a distance. You can put a foregrip on an LMG, as it's not practical for an SMG, although it can be done. The foregrip on the LMG puts the kick to a minimum, making it great for camping.

Sources: experience in war knowledge and Call of Duty gaming.

Yes, Trench Foot just gets it's name from the numerous cases of it caused by the conditions in the trenches in world war 1. It is still something you can get today

WW1 soldiers got about 4 hours sleep a day.

for the same reason Australian soldiers did. Both countries combined to be the ANZACs, (Australia & New Zealand Army Corps) a part of the Imperial British Forces. Thus when the UK went to war, so did they. The UK declared war on behalf of the whole British Empire.

'Total War' - or abandoning the rules of combat, to target the 'civilian underbelly' of the enemy, burning farms, destroying cities etc. , as Sherman did in Georgia and Sheridan in the Shenandoah.

Because conscription was introduced, forcing millions of men into the army. Also, 80% of the labour force was engaged in war production. So there were less household goods being produce. There was also inflation, meaning that the value of money significantly dropped. So the farmers didn't want to exchange valuable food for worthless money, especiallly as there was nothing worth buying being made. Also, loads of food was being sent to the front for the soldiers, meaning that there was even less left for the civilians, leading to chronic food shortages.

The trenches on the western front were built in a more or less continuous line from the North Sea all the way to the border of Switzerland. A distance of about 750 km; considering that both sides used multiple trench lines, plush support trenches, and zigzags across the landscape there would have been several thousand kilometres of trenches being used by either side at any given time.

I think it was the machine guns as they were able to kill hundreds of the other side in minutes.

Depends on what you're talking about - Burns, blisters, severe trauma to the inner body i.e. organ failure - it's hard to be specific because there is an insane amount of ways they can harm you.

Obviously, you could use a gas mask.

But, if you don't have one, you could do what they did in World War 1.

They urinated on handkerchiefs and placed them on their mouths to neutralize the effect.

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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The Blitzkrieg really belongs to WW2. Trench warfare was at its height in the first world war. Blitzkreig depends on fast armoured penetration coupled with aerial attack and the use of the explosive power of the schwerpunct against a linear formation. In essence it is column vs line which Napoleon made effective in the 19th century, except, of course, against the British in the Peninsula. (Where Napoleon wasn't!)

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Two were:

-Travelling across no-mans land to get to enemy lines.

-Falling for Germans pretending to be dead, shortly afterwards being shot down.

About 60,000 were killed... Oops!