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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it felt like torture. It was like you were guaranteed to die. The life here is gruesome and terrible. The trenches‚ which we spent most of our time in‚ have become the worst place to live in. It is a small dug out in the ground‚ about two to three meters wide‚ infested with rats and frogs that carried diseases around. The stench of the decaying bodies on the battleground and the trenches can be smelled from a far distance. Often you are alone but the rats and flies keeps you company as they feed
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in seems of clothing‚ in the soldiers hair‚ or by animals that lived in the trenches along side the soldiers. The trenches were a very unsanitary place. So unsanitary everything is cleaned once a day and things are still able to be distributed throughout the trenches and infect many of the trench’s residents. Trench foot is a condition that is just as it sounds‚ a condition that affects your feet from being in the trenches. This comes from soldiers feet being in the water that was in the
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Date: 22 / 1 / 2014 War In The Trenches Written by Simon Adams‚ was published by Franklin Watts in 2004 Reflection: This book talk about what soldiers did in the World War One. They work in a trench which was under cover by darkness; the enemy could not see what was going on. That was the time to bring supplies forwards‚ send out patrols to reconnoiter enemy lines and undertake running repairs to the trenches‚ frontline parapets and the barbed-wire defensive fences.
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What were the trenches? Only a small number of the army actually spent their time in the trenches.The trenches were the equivalent of the front line but also happened to be the most dangerous place. Behind the trenches were many more trenches leading to civilisation and neighbouring towns‚ these trenches were training establishments‚ stores‚ workshops and headquarters. The trenches were the area of the soldiers‚ with space for the machine-guns‚ the engineers and the space where the soldiers spent
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nuclear weapons. 3. The Trenches and why they were Employed Trenches are ditches in which soldiers can fight. The trenches in WW1 were built about two – three metres deep and measured two metres wide. They could be any length and were all interconnected. Trenches were used because they provided substantial cover from the enemies’ artillery and small arms fire. (BBC‚ 2015) 4. Armies involved and The Western Front Both the allies and the central powers fought in the trenches with both sides suffering
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Life in the trenches is varied differently from alliance to alliance‚ but the hardship is still the same. So what are the trenches like for our soldiers at war? All of the soldiers face many difficulties while at war. Death is a constant comrade in war whether in the trenches or not. Constant shellfire brings random deaths to those not even on guard. Many of the soldiers are buried due to large bombardments in the trenches. Death is shown all around not just from bombardments‚ but also disease
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Life in the trenches during World War 1 were horrible. It was entirely unexpected for those eager thousands who signed up for war August 1914.The Great War- was a phrase coined even before it had begun. It was expected to be very short and like most wars a great movement. However The First World War was symbolized by its lack of movement‚ the years of stalemate exemplified on the Western Front from autumn 1914 until spring 1918
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Undercover Boss MGT 550 Examine how working “in the trenches” of the organization can help improve leadership skills. Working “in the trenches” of the organization is a great way to improve leaderships skills. It helped employers realize exactly what their employees have to go through on a daily basis. They shared the identical work experience of these employees and‚ along the way‚ learn a great deal about what is good and not so good in the
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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 like
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