1. (Copy) Life in the trenches:
Warmup 22-2
(Copy) Life in the trenches:
Soldiers on the western front had to carry the following:
Rifle, bayonet, grenades, 170 rounds of ammunition (bullets), gas mask, shovel, wire cutters, water bottle, food rations, medical supplies, extra clothing, and a portable cooking stove w/ fuel. Total Weight: 60-70lbs
1. Describe the living conditions in the trenches.
2. Could staying in the trench become dangerous? Why?
3. According to Mr. Fleming, what were some of the horrors associated with the western front?
4. How does the picture on p. 413 match what you have learned?
Open your book to pg 413.
Bayonet
Lots of mud, rats, hardly any fresh food or sleep, open to attack, “terrain of death”
yes. Artillery fire could penetrate the trenches, dead bodies falling, disease
Dead bodies, dead animals, disfigured bodies
Barren landscape, vulnerable men
Cooking stove

2. British cooking up a “trench meal”
Typical British Rations:
1lb frozen meat, or salt meat
1 lb bread/biscuit/flour
2 oz. bacon
3 oz. cheese
5/8 oz. tea
4 oz. jam
3 oz. sugar
1/2 oz salt
1/36 oz. pepper
1/20 oz. mustard
2 oz. dried vegetables
1/2oz lime juice (if no vegetables)
2 1/2oz rum or gin (at discretion of commander)
up to 2 oz. tobacco per week (at discretion of commander
British cooking up a “trench meal”

3. German troops firing Machine Guns
French troops using a periscope in a trench
German troops firing Machine Guns

4. French troops testing phone lines for communication

5. French Soldiers Killed on the Western Front

6. Water filled trench (usual cause of trench foot)
Soldier caught on the barbed wire