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Diseases
One problem being in the trenches was that infections and diseases surrounded them because rats, mud, Lice, bodies and even in the air contained diseases that could infect them. A few of these diseases were Trench foot, Shell Shock, blindness and burns from the Mustard gas, body lice, Trench fever and the pandemic infection Spanish Flu (About.com, 2014) and (Duffy, 2009).
A quick letter to home from the front lines
https://dianaoverbey.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/soldiers-writing-letters.jpg
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An image of the pests caught in the trenches
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25403863
RoutinesAccording to (Baker, 2014), Soldiers were placed in a routine on where they would be in the trench. Four days was spent in the front lines to defend/attack the opposing side, four days was spent in the reserved trench that was behind the front line which was slightly safer and four days was finally at a rest in the 3rd trench but the soldiers were still vulnerable to diseases was still carried by Lice, Rats, etc. around them.
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Food/Refreshments
In the trenches, receiving food was considered a “luxury”. Being given hot/cooked food from the field kitchens was almost impossible when a battle was about to happen or a battle was already raging on but soldiers were supplied with food daily. The food the British soldiers were given was;
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“20 ounces of bread or 16 ounces of flour,
3 ounces of cheese, 5/8 ounces of tea, 4 ounces of jam, half an ounce of salt, 1/36 ounce of pepper, 1/20 ounce of mustard, 8 ounces of vegetables or 1/10 gill lime, ½ gill of rum, 20 ounces of tobacco, 1/3 chocolate (optional), 4 ounces of oatmeal instead of bread, 1 pint of porter instead of rum, 4 ounces of dried fruit instead of jam, 4 ounces of butter/margarine and 2 ounces of dried vegetable according to (historylearning.co, 2014). |
The Anzac's on the Western Front
When the ANZAC’s were fighting the Germans in 1916, they have realised that the winter was another enemy for them as it was listed as one the worst winters ever recorded. Each ANZAC was given 2 blankets each but it wasn’t enough to stop the cold so soldiers had to sleep as close as possible to each other to just bare it, says (ANZAC Day CCI, 2014).
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The basic housing in the trenches
http://www.ww1westernfront.gov.au/bullecourt/visiting-bullecourt/48th-battalion-at-bullecourt.php
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