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And of course rats, they proliferate around the trenches, they feed on the dead bodies. Men would wake up face to face with a rat sitting on their chest. You would also get problems in summer or in hotter climates from masses of flies. Of course, flies move from corpses to toilets to food, that way spreading diseases such has dysentery etc.
6 Ιουν 2023 · Gas attacks and flamethrowers often led to painful, agonizing deaths for soldiers, whose bodies were left to pile up in the trenches-turned-graves that they had helped build. See some of the most horrific images of World War I trenches in the gallery below, then learn more about the history behind this catastrophic warfare.
This Encyclopaedia Britannica World History list explores life in the trenches during World War I.
12 Οκτ 2021 · From the trenches of the Western Front to the apocalyptic battlefields of Verdun and the Gallipoli Campaign, these World War I photos show the brutality of "the war to end all wars." These remarkable WW1 photos capture the harsh realities of life in the trenches — and sometimes the briefest moments of kindness.
10 Μαΐ 2024 · World War I forever changed the European landscape, in terms of the loss of human life and the scars left behind in the earth via the digging of trenches and the explosive nature of artillery and other munitions. Some of these physical remnants are no longer visible, having been reclaimed by Mother Nature.
9 Νοε 2018 · The full horror of life in the trenches has been uncovered in an incredible set of historic photographs capturing the daily threat of bullets and silent gas attacks.
Our total casualties were 18,500 dead, nearly 50,000 wounded – many twice or more. This was a terrible price to pay, our population then was only just over a million. Film extract from The years back episode 1: the twentieth century, produced by the New Zealand Film Unit, 1973. Video supplied courtesy of Archives New Zealand.
