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TRENCH WARFARE

TRENCH WARFARE. Life in the Trenches. By: Janice, Katie, & Alie This PowerPoint was produced by three JMSS students - Fall 2006. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Creating the trenches… - How they looked - Inside the trench - Tools used Dangers in the trenches…

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TRENCH WARFARE

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  1. TRENCH WARFARE Life in the Trenches By: Janice, Katie, & Alie This PowerPoint was produced by three JMSS students - Fall 2006

  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS... Creating the trenches… - How they looked - Inside the trench - Tools used • Dangers in the trenches… • What the trenches were like… the worst part of trench life etc. • How the soldiers died in the trenches…snipers, hunger etc. • The diseases and problems within the trenches… lice, rats etc. • Days in the trenches… • Time spent in the trenches • Duties in the trenches • Food/ Food supplies

  3. How they Looked • In the beginning • A trench system • Zig-zagged formation • Length and width Trench formation

  4. Inside the Trenches • Fire-step • Duckboards • Dugouts/funk holes • Latrines Inside the trenches...

  5. Building it • Entrenching tool • Song --> “O,O,O it’s a lovely war! What do we want with eggs and ham? When we have plum and apple jam Form fours, night turn How shall we spend the money we earn? O,O,O it’s a lovely war!” The Entrenching tool

  6. What the Trenches were Like… • The trenches were filled with water • Constant mud • Duckboards • Latrines • Trench grounds in winter and autumn • Dead bodies The amount of water and mud in the trenches

  7. How the Soldiers Died… Soldiers picking up bodies from No Man’s Land • Falling off duckboards and into the mud • Buried alive • Suicide • Enemy snipers • Diseases • Lack of food Trench walls collapsed Dead soldiers on the ground

  8. TRENCH FOOT!!!!

  9. The Diseases and Problems… • Trench foot • The pyrrexhia or trench fever • Lice • Rats • Dysentery Soldiers sick from a diseases Soldiers sick while in there trenches

  10. Time spent in the trenches… • Of a 32 Day period: 8 days in a front line trench, 8 days in a reserve trench and 16 days away from the front, in a small town or village nearby. • A British soldiers year could be divided as : 15% front line, 10% support line, 30% reserve line, 20% rest, and 25% other. ( hospital, traveling, leave etc.) • Everything could be changed if there’s and offensive attack. Soldiers could spend up to 6 weeks in the front line trenches before they could take a break. • Time in the trenches alternated with long periods of boredom, and short periods of fear. • Soldiers quiet time Soldiers during there rest period. Soldiers looking over there trench.

  11. Duties in the Trenches • Soldiers had to replace the barbed wire, repair the flooded trenches, and clean the latrines. These duties were all called “fatigues” • The maintenance and expansion of the barbed wire fences and the trenches was done at dark, when it was harder to be detected. • ****The work done at night … Most of there work was done at night when patrols were sent out to observe and check out on the enemy trenches, and the repair of their own front – line and gather of create/prepare other defenses. • On breaks from fighting in the trenches, the soldiers were assigned different duties such as moving supplies or helping to repair things. Soldiers switching from line to line. Soldiers working with there trenches

  12. Food & Food Supplies • Soldiers daily meal • Front line meals • Receiving fresh food • The food was delivered in straw-lined boxes • Emergency food / Iron rations • Amount of calories received each day • Rum A painting of 2 soldiers trying to prepare some warm food. Emergency food / iron rations… 7 different supplies

  13. BIBLIOGRAPHY… • Adams, Simon. World War 1 . United States,NY : DK Publishing Inc, 2004 • No name. “Trench Warfare.” World War 1. Oct 2, 2006. <htttp://www.teacheroz.com/wwi.htm#trench> • Pictures… • <http://www.historyguide.org/images/ww1.jpg> • <http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/graphics/trenchperiscope.jpg> • <http://www.usask.ca/communications/ocn/03-mar-07/images/trenches.jpg> • <http://www.uh.edu/engines/trench2.jpg> • <http://www.pap-to-pass.org/clip_image002_0000.jpg> • <http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40661000/jpg/_40661889_trenches_ap203.jpg> • <http://ux1.eiu.edu/~nekey/gifsplus/british/trenches.jpg> • <http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/0a/300px-Trencheswwi2.jpg> • <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWfoot.jpg > • <http://www.caterham.redbridge.sch.uk/history/trench/tw/setup2.jpg>

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