Soldiers during WWITrench lifestyle

Hannah Fisher

Living Style

• During this time most

soldiers live in ditches or in

tent.

Daily Life

• Most spent most of their time building larger trenches or talking to one another.

• Or they were fighting off the enemy.

Lifestyle• Very rough• Not much to eat• Confined spaces• Waste every where• Unsanitary

Soldier of the 5th Scottish Rifles

Fights

• If you were in the trenches you were often in the most dangerous part of the fighting.

Diseases/Viruses

• During the war many died of diseases and Viruses

• Examples– The Influenza (picture

of an influenza camp)– Trench Fever– Typhoid Fever

Death• Often people either

died form disease, getting shot and other wounds that they got during battle

• Rats wound eat the dead in the trenches

• Picture of the dead in the trench

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Self inflicted wounds• A capitol offence• If caught sent to

prison• Soldiers often did

this because they knew they knew they faced certain death at the front

Casualties and Life After• After the war was

over many began to have posttraumatic symptoms.

• There is an estimated 8.5 million people that died in the trenches

• Officer coming back form the war.

Weapons

• The most deadly weapons in Trench Warfare is the Machine Gun and the Artillery .

Totals

• IN total over 40 million people were killed in WWI and over half of this was the result of trench warfare.

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