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Trench Warfare. What is a trench?. Trenches. A trench is basically long narrow ditch embanked with its own soil and used to hide from enemies and protection during warfare. Trench System. How Were Trenches Built?. Trenches were dug out by soldiers. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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TRENCH WARFAREWhat is a trench?
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Trenches A trench is basically long narrow ditch
embanked with its own soil and used to hide from enemies and protection during warfare.
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Trench System
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How Were Trenches Built? Trenches were dug out by soldiers. All the trench system is was supported by
wood, sandbags.
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"No Man’s Land" "No Man’s Land" was the land between the
enemy trenches. Soldiers had to cross over this to get to the other armies side.
"No Man’s Land“ was full of barbed-wire, land mines, craters, etc.
With all these obstacles the soldiers had issues crossing this.
If you were an unlucky soldier you may have had to go out to "No Man’s Land” at night and collect your dead, find mines, cut barbed-wire.
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“No Man’s Land”
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Living Conditions - Yuck The trenches were disgusting – men lived
in dirt, excrement, with lice, rats, and other vermin.
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Diseases Trench Foot
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Vermin Lice caused Trench Fever, a particularly painful
disease that began suddenly with severe pain followed by high fever.
Recovery - away from the trenches - took up to twelve weeks. Lice were not actually identified as the culprit of Trench Fever until 1918.
Frogs by the score were found in shell holes covered in water; they were also found in the base of trenches. Slugs and horned beetles crowded the sides of the trench.
Many men chose to shave their heads entirely to avoid another prevalent scourge: nits.
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Trench Fever – caused by the lice
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Trench Rats!
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The Mud
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And the smell......... Rotting carcasses lay around in their thousands. For example,
approximately 200,000 men were killed on the Somme battlefields, many of which lay in shallow graves.
Overflowing latrines would similarly give off a most offensive stench.
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 infection.
Add to this the smell of cordite, the lingering odour of poison gas, rotting sandbags, stagnant mud, cigarette smoke and cooking food... yet men grew used to it, while it thoroughly overcame first-time visitors to the front.
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Video’s Lucky -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTlvLbwrzA
Wee Wee - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9292ohg14RQ&feature=related
British Troops - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAA9ZVgZauA&feature=related
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My Boy Jackhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL75TlTXcDI
Death Watchhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJuRTWzs4is&feature=related
All Quiet on the Western Fronthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKNlnOXrIdI&feature=related