1. This PowerPoint was produced by three JMSS students - Fall 2006
TRENCH WARFARE
Life in the Trenches
By: Janice, Katie, & Alie
This PowerPoint was produced by three JMSS students - Fall 2006

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS... Creating the trenches… Dangers in the trenches…
- How they looked
- Inside the trench
- Tools used
Dangers in the trenches…
What the trenches were like… the worst part of trench life etc.
How the soldiers died in the trenches…snipers, hunger etc.
The diseases and problems within the trenches… lice, rats etc.
Days in the trenches…
Time spent in the trenches
Duties in the trenches
Food/ Food supplies

3. How they Looked In the beginning A trench system Zig-zagged formation
Length and width
Trench formation

4. Inside the Trenches Fire-step Duckboards Dugouts/funk holes Latrines

5. Building it Entrenching tool Song --> “O,O,O it’s a lovely war!
What do we want with eggs and ham?
When we have plum and apple jam
Form fours, night turn
How shall we spend the money we earn?
O,O,O it’s a lovely war!”
The Entrenching tool

6. What the Trenches were Like…
The trenches were filled with water
Constant mud
Duckboards
Latrines
Trench grounds in winter and autumn
Dead bodies
The amount of water and mud in the trenches

7. How the Soldiers Died… Falling off duckboards and into the mud
Soldiers picking up bodies from No Man’s Land
Falling off duckboards and into the mud
Buried alive
Suicide
Enemy snipers
Diseases
Lack of food
Trench walls collapsed
Dead soldiers on the ground

8. TRENCH FOOT!!!!

9. The Diseases and Problems…
Trench foot
The pyrrexhia or trench fever
Lice
Rats
Dysentery
Soldiers sick from a diseases
Soldiers sick while in there trenches

10. Time spent in the trenches…
Of a 32 Day period: 8 days in a front line trench, 8 days in a reserve trench and 16 days away from the front, in a small town or village nearby.
A British soldiers year could be divided as : 15% front line, 10% support line, 30% reserve line, 20% rest, and 25% other. ( hospital, traveling, leave etc.)
Everything could be changed if there’s and offensive attack. Soldiers could spend up to 6 weeks in the front line trenches before they could take a break.
Time in the trenches alternated with long periods of boredom, and short periods of fear.
Soldiers quiet time
Soldiers during there rest period.
Soldiers looking over there trench.

11. Soldiers switching from line to line.
Duties in the Trenches
Soldiers had to replace the barbed wire, repair the flooded trenches, and clean the latrines. These duties were all called “fatigues”
The maintenance and expansion of the barbed wire fences and the trenches was done at dark, when it was harder to be detected.
****The work done at night … Most of there work was done at night when patrols were sent out to observe and check out on the enemy trenches, and the repair of their own front – line and gather of create/prepare other defenses.
On breaks from fighting in the trenches, the soldiers were assigned different duties such as moving supplies or helping to repair things.
Soldiers switching from line to line.
Soldiers working with there trenches

12. Food & Food Supplies Soldiers daily meal Front line meals
Receiving fresh food
The food was delivered in straw-lined boxes
Emergency food / Iron rations
Amount of calories received each day
Rum
A painting of 2 soldiers trying to prepare some warm food.
Emergency food / iron rations… 7 different supplies

13. BIBLIOGRAPHY…
Adams, Simon. World War 1 . United States,NY : DK Publishing Inc, 2004
No name. “Trench Warfare.” World War 1. Oct 2, <htttp://
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