Trench Warfare Traumas

Illnesses

•  Number one killer in the trenches.
•  Trench Foot, Trench Mouth, Trench Fever, Dysentery, Typhus, Cholera.
• Lethal illnesses were mistaken for more innocuous ones.

Wounds

• Soldiers always had some type of wound.
•  Blighty Wound - Wound that could send you home.
• Minor wounds could often become infected and kill. 
• Today's antibiotics were not discovered, so many soldiers died.
• Truces were initiated to recover the wounded and bury the dead. 

Shell Shock

• Psychological damage.
• Known today as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
• Symptoms included fatigue, irritability, and headaches.
• Sufferers refused to follow orders, committed suicide, or deserted.
• Punishments ranged from court-martials to execution.

Self-inflicted wounds

• Many hoped for "blighty wounds".
• Some shot themselves.
• Some commit suicide or let enemy kill them.
• Major crime that could end in execution.

Death

• Illness
• Shot by enemy.
• Enemy gas.
• 10% of soldiers died.

Works cited

• http://trenches.jynx.ca/?page=traumas
• http://www.health24.com/Lifestyle/Woman/Your-life/Hell-in-the-trenches-2013
• http://inthefootsteps.org.uk/Articles/1914-18GreatWar/LifeInTheTrenches.htm