Trench Warfare

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Trench Warfare

• The Life of Soldiers in the Trenches during WWI

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Trench Food

• A total of 3,240,948 tons of food was sent to the
  front lines.
• The bulk of their diet was bully beef (caned
  corned beef), bread and biscuits.
• By the winter of 1916 flour was in such short
  supply that bread was being made with dried
  ground turnips.
• Finally, the main food was pea-soup with a few
  lumps of horsemeat

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Troubles in the Trenches

• Dysentery- is a disease involving the
  inflammation of the lining of the large
  intestines
• This disease struck the men in the trenches as
  there was no proper sanitation
• Later, to purify water, chloride of lime was
  added to the water. This was not popular with the
  soldiers as they disliked the taste of the
  purified water.

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Trench Foot

• This was an infection of
• the feet caused by cold,
• wet and unsanitary
• conditions
• In the trenches men stood
• for hours on end in
• waterlogged trenches
• without being able to remove
• wet socks or boots
• British Soldiers had to change their socks at
  least twice a day to prevent this.

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WARNING REALLY GROSS PICTURE COMING
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Weapons of Trench Warfare
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Artillery

• A barrage is a term used to describe extensive
  artillery fire against enemy positions.
• Barrages were classified as light, moderate or
  heavy.
• A light barrage amounted to six or seven shells
  every ten minutes. A moderate barrage was thirty
  shells a minute and a heavy one, fifty to sixty
  shells a minute.

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The Machine Gun
The Machine Gun allowed for more efficient
warfare. The gun would be used as a way of
keeping the other army in their trench. It was
also used in combination with barbed wire to
funnel soldiers into an area so that large
groups of them could be killed at once.
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Barbed Wire
Barbed wire was used to slow down advancing
troops. The barbed wire was also used to force
soldiers to charge through certain openings
in the fence.
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Mustard Gas

• Mustard Gas was first used by the German Army in
  September 1917.
• was almost odorless and took twelve hours to
  take effect
• The skin of victims of mustard gas blistered, the
  eyes became very sore and they began to vomit.
  Mustard gas caused internal and external bleeding
  and attacked the bronchial tubes, stripping off
  the mucous membrane