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Life in the Trenches (Food (When Food Was Given to the soldiers •Potatoes…
Life in the Trenches
Food
When Food Was Given to the soldiers
•Potatoes
•Breads
•Meats
When Food wasn't available
•rats
•dirty-water
"We are fed on Bully Beef (ordinary Fray Bentos, you know the brand) and lovely hard biscuits which I adore. Last night I added to my menu a bloater and some bread and marmalade, duff and coffee".
Harold Chapin
Weapons
Ross Rifle
Lee Einfield Rifle
Machine Guns
Grenades
Mines
U-Boats
Airplanes
Tanks
Chemical Gases
Cannons
Bombs
Trench Warfare
"The machine gun is a much over rated weapon.."
Field Marshal Douglas Haig
Diseases
Trench Foot
Failure of Respiratory System
Loss of sight
Loss of Limbs
Gas Poisoning
Blistering Skin
Burning Eyes
Vomiting
Internal and External Bleeding
Fungal Build-up
Influenza
Typhoid
Trench Fever
Diabetes
Malaria
Headaches
Leg and Back Pains
Shell Shock
“If you have never had trench foot described to you, I will explain. Your feet swell to two to three times their normal size and go completely dead. You can stick a bayonet into them and not feel a thing. If you are lucky enough not to lose your feet and the swelling starts to go down, it is then that the most indescribable agony begins. I have heard men cry and scream with pain and many have had to have their feet and legs amputated. I was one of the lucky ones, but one more day in that trench and it may have been too late.”
Harry Roberts
Conditions
“Whilst asleep during the night, we were frequently awakened by rats running over us. When this happened too often for my liking, I would lie on my back and wait for a rat to linger on my legs; then violently heave my legs upwards, throwing the rat into the air. Occasionally, I would hear a grunt when the rat landed on a fellow victim.”
R L Venables
Rats, Lice, Bad weather, Muddy, Flooded,land mines, barbed wire, sandbags, wooden beams, have to be ready at all times, and can be shot dead anytime
Environment
Devastated
Muddy
Puddles
No Trees
No vegetation
Disgusting
"No Man’s Land is a tangled desert. Unless one could see it, one cannot imagine what a terrible state of disorder it is in."
Charlie May
