The Role Of Warfare In World War One

Humanities

World War One was the first war after the Industrial Revolution to have advanced military technology. Unfortunately as a result of this, thousands of deaths had occurred, particularly in France and Belgium. The high death rate associated with Australian soldiers in World War One was not solely caused by military technology, but was also caused by the spread of diseases in trenches, lack of resources and poor medical attention. Many deaths of Australian soldiers were not mainly a result of weaponry injuries but included many diseases such as dysentery, trench foot, trench fever and shell shock. Majority of these were caused by the unsanitary conditions they faced in the trenches or the constant fear of being under attacked. Many
As a result, military weapons is commonly associated with the concept of death in war. After the Industrial Revolution, there was a significant rise and development of weapons that resulted in 60,000 deaths out of 400,000 men enlisted. Improved military technology included weaponry guns, chemical weapons, poison gas and different types of transport (ITR). There was a variety of military weapons used in World War One. Artillery was the dominant weapon as it had killed more people that any of weapons did in history. Artillery had the most improvements to gun design and shifted advantage to the attacker (HistoryNet,2014). Therefore, ‘20.2% of the Australia troops’, unfortunately resulted in death due to severe injuries caused by military weapons (ITR) . This shows that many deaths in war were due to military technology. During World War One, there was a major focus on improving military attack then defence and protection. Thus meaning that the attack side of war was exceeding but lack of protection resulted in death. Australian War Memorial, 2018, shows that the significant increase in technology did not outcome in fewer deaths, but resulted in more injuries and death. This shows that a great deal of military planning for Australian troops resulted in constant fear of opposing side attack (Memorial, 2018). This meant that
The conditions in the trenches caused many death of soldiers. Being under threat and attack was the only problem for the Australian troops as the trenches were just at bad as the battlefield. Fear of being constantly under attack by weapons in the trenches became a large problem as well as the many health risks that became a vital issue for medical personals (Memorial, 2018). This is because many diseases and illnesses such as shell shock, dysentery, trench foot, bowel infections we present in the trenches. As a result of this, the death rate of soldiers increased due to illnesses found in the trenches. Soldiers who were wounded would also catch diseases or infections from others yet severely wounded or dead soldiers around them. Nurses also became sick off soldiers that were in care who had carried diseases from the trenches. The nurses and voluntary aid members suffered severe injections, particularly to their hands from tending wounds to Australian soldiers. They also caught diseases such as dysentery and influenza carried from the trenches (Conversation, 2014) This caused many deaths of both soldiers and medical aid. Unfortunately, the harsh conditions, many health risks and diseases in the trenches led to a significantly high death toll of Australian soldiers in the