theatrics of my life in the trenches and the daily occurrences. Firstly I must enquire on the home life‚ how is your brother and mother? Has the grieving process of father slowed‚ are they coping? Make sure you take good care of them Michael‚ keep the farm up and running and enjoy yourself at Christmas time. The time spent at the Etaples base training camp was hard‚ the men began to realise what we were going to face‚ and the Bull ring training‚ created to prepare us for time in the trenches was nothing
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Letter from the trenches Dear Mom and Dad ‚ I am a soldier in the war. I’m sorry for not telling you that I was joining the army but didn’t want to get your hopes up if something happened to me. Life as a soldier was difficult because you had small rations and a lot of people died from scared food and products that were already spoiled. I remember my Sargent telling me to be careful out there in the trenches because enemy forces could rush you at any time and kill you from behind. I will never
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My dear Lucy‚ I know that I am not supposed to be writing to you right now but I just couldn’t help it; I need to express myself to you on everything that has been going on here in the trenches. The trenches are so cold at the moment; I wish it would stay this way though. It’s perfect right now‚ beautiful snowfall and this I am happy for‚ brings us back the old memories of me and you. Unfortunately it will not be like this forever‚ it will be summer in a while and that is going to be bad. I remember
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A letter from the trenches Grade 9 Humanities - Assessment Task AOI: Health and Social Education Imagine you are a soldier fighting in the First World War in 1915… Your character could be in the trenches on the Western Front as: British‚ French or German soldier a native conscript from one of the colonies in Africa or Asia a volunteer from a commonwealth ally like Canada or South Africa Alternatively‚ your character could be: a German or Russian soldier on the Eastern Front a Turkish
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Dear my Beloved wife and children‚ At last‚ my opportunity to write you a letter has come. This opportunity will not come for awhile so sit comfortably and have a cup of tea with the children when you read this. I miss you‚ Elena. Every day I yearn to hear the soft voice of yours and your touch against my skin. I miss hearing and seeing the kids fight with each other over a wooden toy. Although it irritated and caused me stress‚ I would rather hear that than hear the faint cries of young innocent
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My Dear Brother I had attended to write earlier‚ however the Germans had us covered with the constant rain of shells falling‚ we had to stay on Guard duty to make sure they did not get here. On the way back‚ Zack got caught in a mudslide after one of the bombs hit the nearby hill. He went out like the others. My company just acquired some new novices to fight and obviously they hadn’t seen rats before‚ consequently they were scared and it wasn’t helped by our stories of how the brown rats ripped
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Life in the trenches‚ during World War I‚ was a horrible experience for the soldiers of that time. Many soldiers were faced with death during these times. The sources of their deaths were either enemy attacks or their contraction of harmful diseases. Another major obstacle‚ in the trenches‚ was of the infestation of rats. Rats‚ either black or brown‚ were feared and were nuisances to the soldiers. Brown rats‚ especially‚ were detested due to their tendencies to feed on human remains‚ including the
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World War I in the trenches‚ their homes and in most cases-their death beds during combat. In this picture it is clear to see that life in the trenches was dismal and uncomfortable. Trenches were basically dug out pieces of land that soldiers fought from and sought refuge in upon returning attacks. They were not fun places to live and consisted of numbers of men packed tightly together in constant fear of their lives being taken from them before they could ever return home to their families
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Life in the Trenches is rough and horrible. We get woken up in the middle of the night due to fire falling on us. I then have to take cover and crouch in a corner. “ Each man lays hold of his things and looks again every minute to reassure himself that they are still there.” (Source 1) The troops and I have to hold are things and every minute we need to look see if they are still there. In the trenches there is rats. “ The rats have become much more numerous lately because the trenches are
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In the novel “Letter from the coffin-trenches”‚ written by Ken Catran‚ is about a young lad participating in the army to fight for his country and also writing to his girlfriend for communication. So whenever he is away they won’t lose their bond. One of the characters that I like in the novel is Harry Wainright and he is the youthful guy among the soldiers. He is the bravest man that they’ve had in the team as well. I like him because of his characteristic of heroism‚ by showing us his courageous
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