LIFE IN THE TRENCH

HOW WAS A SOLDIERS TYPICAL DAY LIKE

• Day and Night They've lived in a narrow ditch dug into the ground.
• They don't get much sleep, but when they did it was like in the Afternoon during daylight and @ Night
• They were woken up @ different times either to complete one of their daily chores or to fight.
• There were lots of dead buried usually nearby them, their toilets get overflowed into the trench, and they also had problems getting lice that tormented the soldiers on daily basics

WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL OR CREATURE DID THEY DEAL WITH?

• Mainly a lot of Rats, they grew as the size of a life size cat
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DID SOLDIERS PRACTICE ANY SORT OF TRUCE

• Yeah, The Soldiers practiced a Christmas truce there series of widespread it Unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front, around Christmas in 1914. In the week leading up to the holiday, Germany and British Soldiers Crossed trenches to exchange seasonal greeting to talk. There was joint burial ceremonies, and prisoner swamps, while several meetings ended in carol singing, they Also played football. The Christmas Truce wasn't as unique as a normal Christmas party, but they did have a reflected growing mood of live and let live.

What kind of psychological effect did life in the trench have on soldiers

• One of the major psychological problems of trench warfare was shellshock, shell shock was a condition that was developed by many soldiers in the trenches during world war I.
• Theres some psychological disorders that affected men long after the ending of the war some of many were, uncontrollable, Soldiers who had bayoneted men in the face developed hysterical spasms of their own facial muscles. Stomach cramps occurred in men who knifed their enemies in the stomach. Snipers lost their sight

PHOTO #1
Death was a constant companion to those serving in the line, even when no raid or attack was launched or defended against. In busy sectors the constant shellfire directed by the enemy brought random death, whether their victims were lounging in a trench or lying in a dugout (many men were buried as a consequence of such large shell-bursts)

Photo 2
This picture is their daily routine of life, the trenches began with the morning 'stand to'. An hour before dawn everyone was roused from slumber by the company orderly officer and sergeant and ordered to climb up on the fire step to guard against a dawn raid by the enemy, bayonets fixed.

Photo 3
In this picture Men were relieved front-line duty day and night, Relieving units would wind their weary way through numerous lines of communications trenches, weighed down with equipment and trench stores, such as (shovels, picks, corrugated iron, and duckboards)The process of relieving a line could take several frustrating hours.

In this picture it's about the Stench in the air, over 200,000 men were killed for on the Somme battlefields, many of which lay in shallow graves.Men who had not been afforded the luxury of a bath in weeks or months would offer the pervading odour of dried sweat. The feet were generally accepted to give off the worst odour.
Trenches would also smell of creosol or chloride of lime, used to stave off the constant threat of disease and infections