Life in the trenches

Question 1

What was it like: violence, the disease, the boredom?

Answer 1

Bodies from daily deaths of soldiers

Rats, lice , trench foot

Boredom: couldn’t move during the day(snipers) , Wrote/red letters, only short random times sleep

Question 2

Daily routines

Answer 2

Daily chores: refilling sandbags, repair floor boards, draining water from trenches

Question 3

Trench cycle

Answer 3

Trench cycle: 70 days in the front, 30 and support trenches, 120 in reserve, only 70 days of rest

Question 4

No man’s land

Answer 4

Patrolling no man’s land

Repair barbed wire

Listening posts to pick up valuable enemy
Hand to hand combat/avoid machine guns

There were bodies, overflowing latrines,Dried sweat no baths in weeks, feet, who is in gas, cigarettes smoke

Question 5

What would you experience with the five senses

Answer 5

You can hear consistent Shell fire and explosions

You can smell bodies, overflowing Latrines, poison gas, cigarette smoke

You can touch feel pain, trench foot, letters mud

You can taste sweat, blood, gas
You can see bodies, mud, rats, lice