TRENCH LETTER-BY ASHNA SAILUS Dear mum‚ It is Mothers Day and my thoughts are with you as always‚ I wish that I could be with you on this special day instead of being here in this hell hole which Belgium has become. I miss you little Delson and Christopher so very much and I pray for the day that this war comes to an end‚ please pass my love on to my two baby brothers and kiss them for me‚ mum. We arrived at the front line just over a week ago and the smell was so bad that many of the
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the mud has become unimaginably thick in the trenches; it has become incredibly difficult to complete simple tasks such as walking. Since all the soldiers have to live in the trenches the wet and thick mud has established its own disease called the trench foot; this is when the foot has a fungal infection. Each day the conditions are becoming worse in the trenches and now these trenches are infested with lice‚ flies and rats! Everyday each soldier is assigned specific jobs to do and because I am now
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The Warfare and Strategy of World War One: Birth of Modern Warfare The European summer 1914 was a very productive one before the onset of World War One. International exchange and co-operation fueled the belief that war was impossible to come. In 1910 the author of The Great Illusion‚ Norman Angell‚ demonstrated that the breaking of international credit caused by war would either deter its outbreak or bring it to a quick close (the first world war‚ ebook location 272). However‚ the assassination
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sometimes even drowned wounded men. The mud also caused trench foot‚ an infection caused by prolonged exposure to cold‚ wet and unsanitary conditions that sometimes led to amputation. The trenches were dug in a zigzag pattern to keep any sort of shell fire or explosions from spreading too far down the line‚ minimizing injury and or loss of life. Trenches were doug in sets of three main lines with sets of communication lines connecting them. The trench line furthest from the front was used for reserve
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Trench Foot was a serious disorder during World War 1‚ especially during the winter of 1914-1915‚ when over 20‚000 Allied men were affected. Whale oil played a vital role in minimizing the condition but even so some 74‚000 Allied troops had been afflicted by the end of the war. In Flanders and France trenches were dug in land that was often at or near to sea level and where the water table was just beneath the soil surface. After a couple of feet of digging the soldiers inevitably hit water and
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The Trench is a color‚ British‚ 98 minute drama film that was released in 1999‚ produced by Steven Clark Hall‚ written and directed by William Boyd and distributed by Somme Productions. According to Nicholas J. Cull‚ University of Leicester: “In 1916‚ a British filmmaker named Geoffrey Mallins made and released a one-hour film of life in the British trenches entitled The Battle of the Somme. It captured the imagination of the British public at the time with a host of memorable images‚ the most
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Source C shows a group of German soldiers positioned in a trench in northern France. The soldiers in the trench are holding a heavy machine gun and have an advanced gas mask over their faces. This tells me that they are prepared for a gas attack. This photo was taken three years into the war which tells me that gas attacks became more frequent and therefore they felt the need to improve the gas masks to be more prepared. The source is German‚ and on one hand it is good because it shows us the features
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Trench Foot Many soldiers fighting in World War One at one point had to face trench foot. Trench foot is a fungal infection brought about by a prolonged exposure to wet‚ cold conditions like what there was in the trenches. It was first thought up by military authorities that soldiers that did not have very much morale got the fungal infection. If the trench foot turned gangrenous then the leg would have to be amputated. The officers tried to combat it by telling the soldiers that they had to dry
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was odourless and took about 12 hours to take effect. Gases caused internal and external bleeding and completely burn the throats and lungs. * Tunnelling: Specialists dug tunnels under the enemy defenses and place mines to collapse the opposing trench. * Scorched Earth: Retreating German troops applied scorched earth policy to prevent any use of facilities that were about to be lost. * Pillbox: Miniature forts developed with concrete and armour plate which meant it can take multiple artillery
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Warfare of World War 1 Contents Page 2: Introduction Page 3: Why did WW1 start? Page 4: Alliances‚ The Schlieffen Plan and why it went wrong Pages 5-9: Trench warfare Pages 10-11: Weapons Pages 12-14: Changes in WW1 Page 14-15: Battles on the Sea and in the Sky Page 16: Russia joining and U.S leaving Page 17: Conclusion and sources Introduction I decided to do my project on the warfare of World War 1 because I thought it would be interesting to research about how the war was fought
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