Life In The Trenches
Trenches Of War, The Graves Of Mud
Life In The Trenches
Life wasn't very sunny in the trenches, nor people that lives in a middle of conflict. Trenches was a long slightly-underground bunker that was used by different countries of WW1. The trenches are basically a grave that was dug by the soldiers, many soldiers was killed in these trenches.
Trench Plan
The trench plans was looking successful and was designed to be very effective and self supporting. Unfortunately, drawing plans are easy but digging it takes a long time. The trenches turned out to be very shallow and was made poorly, due to the fact that the enemies were firing machine guns at the soldiers that made the trench. Many men died digging trenches.
Daily Life
The soldiers in the trenches lived with rats and lice for almost 3 years, since water supply for showers were limited, lice quickly swarmed the area living on soldiers. Rats fed on rotting food since there was no proper way of disposing rubbish. The soldiers hated them for multiple reasons, such as spreading diseases and making the place dirty and smelly.
Resting
Soldiers in trenches did not get much sleep, since higher rank officials fear of an attack when most soldiers are resting or sleeping. During break time, Soldiers would play cards, sleep or write letters to their family. When they are sleeping, the soldiers would be called up each at a different time, this could be for watch duty or daily chores (digging trenches or replacing barbed wire.
No man's land
No man's land is a section of land between one force's trench and another force's trench. No man's land would contain huge craters made by huge shells fired by big guns called artillery, these would often be filled with water from the rain. While walking on no man's land, you would see hundreds and thousands of dead corpse that was former soldiers. These soldiers could have died from gun fire, poison gas, grenades or explosions caused by the artillery or they could have drowned in the deep water in the craters.