Soldiers During WWI

trench Warfare

• During World War I, troops used trench warfare when they fought with little movement.
• Troops dug trenches along the front.
•  “No Man’s Land" was the areas were competing  troops couldn't cross
• Most trenches were dug in zig zag patterns.
• Trenches stretched over 100 miles across.

Food in the trenches

• Food was very limiting because of the number of soldier per trench
• British Soldiers ate- bread, tea, dried fruit,cheese, cornmeal, & hardtack 
• German Soilders ate-vegatables, biscuits, bread, an dried fruit
• American Soldiers ate- hardtack, coffee, and bacon 

SAnitary COnditionss

• Soldiers during WWI took as many as 3 baths a month.
• A lot of them got trench mouth from lack of oral hygiene.
• Trench were disgustingly filled with dead corpses, human feces, rats. 
• During the war they never really got to change their clothes resulting in
• diseases

Disease

• From of health conditions soldiers got many diseases.
• They got diseases like trench foot, trench mouth and trench fever.
• Trench Foot-(picture behind) not changing wet socks resulted in this
• Trench Mouth- not rushing teeth for a couple of mouth resulted in this
• Trench Fever-not laying in the trenches getting lice. 

Works Cited

• http://jgemdoc.zenfolio.com/img/s2/v1/p87904295-3.jpg
•  http://www.haleypestcontrol.com/files/rat%20big.jpg 
• http://www.advanceguardmilitaria.com/pictures/V43903/V43903-2.jpg