During WWI, trenches were used to try to protect soldiers from poison gas , giving them more time to put on gas masks. Dysentery, cholera, typhoid fever Typhoid A serious disease spread through contaminated food and water causing high fever, abdominal pain and diarrhea. , and trench foot were all common diseases in the trenches, especially during WWI.
Q. What were the trenches in WW1?
Q. What did a trench look like in ww1?
Trenches were long, narrow ditches dug into the ground where soldiers lived. They were very muddy, uncomfortable and the toilets overflowed. There were many lines of German trenches on one side and many lines of Allied trenches on the other.
Q. How did soldiers go to the toilet in ww1?
Soldiers Used Either Buckets Or Deeper Holes Within The Trenches As Latrines. In order to go to the bathroom in the trenches, soldiers designated specific areas to serve as the latrines.
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Q. What did ww1 soldiers eat?
The bulk of their diet in the trenches 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. The main food was now a pea-soup with a few lumps of horsemeat.
Stand To and the Morning Hate Accompanying stand to, as the light grew, was the daily ritual often termed the ‘morning hate’. Both sides would often relieve the tension of the early hours with machine gun fire, shelling and small arms fire, directed into the mist to their front: this made doubly sure of safety at dawn.
Q. Why were trenches used for WW1?
In WW1 trench warfare was used greatly, the soldiers would dig trenches into the ground so that they were able to avoid enemy fire. The three line trench system was how the trenches were dug. They consisted of three different sections, the front line, the support trenches and the reserve trenches.
Q. What were the trenches like in WWI?
In WWI the trenches were home to some fierce battles. More than 6,000 miles of trenches were dug, with the average trench being 10 feet deep and six feet wide. Trenches were usually dug out, with wood or metal holding up the sides. Sometimes more expensive material, like stone, was used.
Q. How did they build the trenches in WW1?
The trenches were often constructed during nighttime by a group soldiers called engineers so that the trenches were built before the enemy attacked. During WWI there were 3 main types of trench construction: Sapping: The trench was started by digging a short trench, which then be extended at either end of the trench.
