Trench warfare (WW1)
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- Created on: 17-04-20 12:12
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- Trench warfare (WW1)
- Ilness
- Trench foot
- Feet swell to twice or thrice their size
- Feet go numb
- Once the swelling begins to go down, they get very painful
- Some have legs or feet amputated
- Shell shock
- Unable to control movements/jumpy
- Not able to concentrate or sleep
- Easily angered/ iritated
- Trench fever
- caused itching, fever, headaches, sore muscles, sore bones and sore joints
- Trench foot
- Punishments
- Fleeing in the face of the enemy
- Shot
- If they had Shell shock and fled they were still shot as shell shock wasn't recognised
- Field punishment number one
- soldiers were tied to a gun wheel or a fence post etc.
- With legs tied together and arms either outstretched or together
- It was applied up to 3 out of 4 days and could last up to 21 days
- Fleeing in the face of the enemy
- Conditions
- Cold
- Men could lose fingers or toes from frostbite
- Damp
- Men could lose fingers or toes from frostbite
- Muddy
- Pests
- Rats
- ate soldiers' food or even the soldiers themselves whilst they slept
- Lice
- Could cause a disease called trench fever
- Rats
- Cold
- Food
- Rum
- In winter soldiers got rum rations
- 1 or 2 tbs per man
- strong black spirit usually given at morning 'stand-to'
- Tinned food
- Heinz baked beans
- Rum
- Weapons
- Tanks
- A lot ofsoldiers had never seen tanks before
- Big machine guns and just enough room inside for belts of ammunistion and the drivers
- Flammenwerfer
- Hose pipes leading to petrol-tanks strapped to soldiers' backs
- Threw out flames 20-30 ft long, swellign at the end to a whirling oily rose, 6ft in diameter
- Gas shels
- The army distributed gas masks
- Could make you sick or uncncious or even kill you
- Tanks
- Ilness
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