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Soldiers during WWI Trench lifestyle

Soldiers during WWI Trench lifestyle. Hannah Fisher. Living Style. During this time most soldiers live in ditches or in tent. Daily Life. Most spent most of their time building larger trenches or talking to one another. Or they were fighting off the enemy. Lifestyle.

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Soldiers during WWI Trench lifestyle

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  1. Soldiers during WWITrench lifestyle Hannah Fisher

  2. Living Style • During this time most soldiers live in ditches or in tent.

  3. Daily Life • Most spent most of their time building larger trenches or talking to one another. • Or they were fighting off the enemy.

  4. Lifestyle Soldier of the 5th Scottish Rifles • Very rough • Not much to eat • Confined spaces • Waste every where • Unsanitary

  5. Fights • If you were in the trenches you were often in the most dangerous part of the fighting.

  6. Diseases/Viruses • During the war many died of diseases and Viruses • Examples • The Influenza (picture of an influenza camp) • Trench Fever • Typhoid Fever

  7. Death • Often people either died form disease, getting shot and other wounds that they got during battle • Rats wound eat the dead in the trenches • Picture of the dead in the trench http://faculty.ccri.edu/panaccione/AllQuietontheWesternFront.htm http://inthefootsteps.org.uk/Articles/1914-18GreatWar/LifeInTheTrenches.htm

  8. Self inflicted wounds • A capitol offence • If caught sent to prison • Soldiers often did this because they knew they knew they faced certain death at the front

  9. Casualties and Life After • After the war was over many began to have posttraumatic symptoms. • There is an estimated 8.5 million people that died in the trenches • Officer coming back form the war.

  10. Weapons • The most deadly weapons in Trench Warfare is the Machine Gun and the Artillery .

  11. Totals • IN total over 40 million people were killed in WWI and over half of this was the result of trench warfare.

  12. Work Cited • "Photos of The Great War - Error." The World War I Document Archive. Web. 16 Feb. 2012. <http://www.gwpda.org/photos/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=9 • “In the Trenches of 1914-1918.” The Long, Long Trail, Web, 16 Feb. 2012 • "WW1 - Western Front." ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland). Web. 16 Feb. 2012. • "WWI Typhoid Fever | Diagnosis and Treatment In the Great War | Medical Front WWI." WWW Virtual Library @ Www.vlib.us | WWW-VL | United States History; World History; WWI; American History Documents; US Art Museums; US History Museums; USA Historic Sites; Native American Bibliography; Web Site Tools; Electronic Texts. Web. 16 Feb. 2012. <http://www.vlib.us/medical/osler.htm>. • http://www.anzacday.org.au/history/ww1/overview/west.html. • "The 1918 Influenza Pandemic." Virus. Web. 16 Feb. 2012. <http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/>. • http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWblighty.htm • http://library.thinkquest.org/C005707F/odix.htm • http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWcasualtiesF.htm • http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?10276-Trench-Warfarehttp://www.archives.ncdcr.gov/wwi/oldnorthstate/trenchwarfare.htm • "The Great War . Resources . WWI Casualties and Deaths | PBS." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. 16 Feb. 2012 <http://www.pbs.org/greatwar

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