death, defeats, mud and misery DISAGREE Flashcards
how many hours of sleep did soldiers get during the day?
one
Where did the soldiers sleep?
On a wet and muddy fire step, wet through to the skin
What did soldiers have to do when company visited?
March thirty yards of waterlogged trench, sometimes chest deep in water
A soldier’s time is spent doing what?
Digging, filling sandbags, building up parapets and fetching rations
What did soldiers who weren’t on the front line receive as rations?
Bully beef (corned beef) and jam
Where did lice live?
In the lining and the seams of the soldier’s clothes
Were lice easy to get rid of?
They were virtually impossible to remove
What “plentiful food source” was given to the rats that made them grow to enormous sizes?
Dead corpses
How did the rats multiply?
They came up from the canals, fed on the corpses and multiplied massively
What is trench foot?
Your feet swell to two or three times their normal sixe and go completely dead
What was field punishment no.1?
A soldier would be strapped to a post for up to two hours a day for up to 21 days
What types of gas were used?
Tear gas, Phosgene, chlorine and mustard gas
What are fragments of shrapnel as dangerous as?
High explosive shells
When was the term shell shocked first used?
in 1917
What did doctors find out about shell shock (ptsd)?
That men who weren’t in the front line suffered from it as well
