Life In The Trenches Narrative Report

The skins on my toes are turning black. The doctor says if I stay in this trench for more than 2 days I will have to cut off my feet. It scares me that I might have to have my feet amputated but I will stay strong, as I am proud to be serving my country. The other day my best friend Johnny was sleeping in the dug out while the enemy was firing and a missile hit right behind us. The dug out collapsed and Johnny was stuck in the pile of mud. We spent 30 minutes digging him out and we were able to pull him out just before it was too late.

All trenches were similar but the German trenches were stronger and built to a higher quality than the British and this was proven in the battle of the Somme. Along the top of a trench there would be sandbags which soaked up water but also protected the soldiers from bullets and bombs. There would also be barbed wire this stopped the enemy approaching the trenches. In the trench itself there was an ammunition shelf which is self-explanatory; below this there was the fire step to shoot from. To prevent their feet from getting wet/muddy there were duckboards laid down on the ground. A place for the soldiers to keep dry was the dugout in here there was a table, chair and bed where they could get some rest. A soldier would spend one week in a front line trench they would then go back one hundred metres and spend four weeks in a support trench then the soldier would go to a reserve trench for eight weeks which is three hundred metres behind the support.

Introduction: In our question about trench life I will tell you about 5 sources tell us about how trench life was really like during the First World War and what conditions were really like and what problems the soldiers had to face in there time in the trenches. In source A1 some soldiers have experienced diseases, self harming and mental health. ” some men who had enough would hurt themselves on purpose with a self inflicted wounds”.

World War I, also known as the Great War start on 1914, it was the first time largely using modern model firearm in the war. WWI have result a totally different war style under the new firearms, because the machine gun could take hundreds of people in really couple minutes, and the artillery have let each side could boom enemy in long range. The old way standing against each other’s block and shot each other doesn’t work in WWI anymore, so people invented Trenches, it basically is dig in to the ground so it can avoid the machine gun on the ground. Trenches warfare takes months and months to fight, and the trenches have become where those soldier live during the war. The life in trenches is terrible, one of the things trenches have known well know is trench foot, basically let the solider lost legs. Other issue on trench is cleaning, like lice, which end up most cloth solider wear have tons lice on it. There also have some uninvited guest such as trench rat, a huge rat that can ear injury solider alive.

We all sleep and rest and eat in the trenches, but it’s not paradise. One night, the sound of loud booms woke us up. We were being attacked by some very dangerous artillery. We could feel every boom and every crack in the dirt above us. Many soldiers were not prepared for this and got sick. The attack come out of nowhere and frightened all of us.

Living in the trenches is extremely horrible, even though I have only been in it for two days. Although, it is clever that these trenches, that are created by digging in the mud, are designed to protect us from machine gun fire. They are muddy, and when it rains, the mud can slowly trickle onto my outfit. These trenches are rat infested, and the filthy rats always steal the last morsels of food that we have. We use the backside of our shovel to smash and kill the filthy rats. When I first smashed a rat, blood oozed out of the rat and its body was twisted. Nobody could bear to watch that horrendous sight anymore. I immediately ran away; it was the first living thing that I had killed in my entire life. I felt happy but remorseful at the same time. Here in the Western Front, clouds always block the rays of the vivid sunshine; the

Many images from this novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” appear in my mind but the certain images that stick are the dead bodies and people fighting in the Trenches. The Trenches are a big factor to the Great War because it is the place where the soldiers eat, sleep, talk, and take cover from enemy infantry. When I think of war, the shooting back and forth between trenches comes to mind. As a teenager I play video games that are war related and my favorite is Battlefield 1 because it takes place in the Great War. Each Trench is a place for protection but also a death sentence because it is tight and easy to land a grenade or gas in. Although you take cover in there, the amount of dead bodies is far greater than the amount of living soldiers.

Also source A never mentioned any common diseases or injuries such as trench foot, shell shock, body lice and gas attacks, as well as the western front soldiers' physical health overall. Source A had never specified what had happened when the allied was attacking the enemy’s trenches with either weaponry or running across no man's land to kill the competing soldiers. This source doesn't give a very wide portrayal of what was everyday life in the trench fighting and trying to take the enemy soldiers down, the source only told of the small things that happened and was mostly based on his emotions he was going

During a reconnaissance in force, Delta Company 187th engaged enemy forces as they trenched along the hillside. Unknown size elements of enemy forces engaged, with a total count of just two enemy killed in actions. US forces had assumed the North Vietnamese forces would conduct small sporadic attacks and escape back into Laos or Cambodia (Ibid. PG168.). Soon after Delta Company broke contact, Bravo Company engaged an unknown size element of enemy forces. From the controlled firing, it was determined that the assault on the hill will face resistance from a well-disciplined

28/8/1914 I’ve been here for a month know and I can barely cope with the size of these trenches I the Frontline trenches are about seven feet deep and six feet wide. and there always crowded but I don’t complain. Everyone here is nice but there’s a lot of problems like the extremely poor weather conditions like heavy rain and wind now there’s huge amounts of high density mud. These conditions negatively affected the strategies that both armies were planning. These muddy conditions meant that advancement was very slow with soldiers sometimes taking over 3 hours to travel 100 metres! we, when 'going over the top', not only face machine gun fire whilst running towards enemy trenches but had to run through this mud, often getting stuck or going

Trenches and life within those trenches have become an enduring topic from World War One. Throughout the war millions of soldiers experienced and endured the horrors of trench warfare. Some wrote down for posterity what these experiences were and as time has moved on from World War One more and more of these written documents – frequently in the form of a diary – have come to light. Others wrote about their experiences in book-form. On the British side “Goodbye to All That” by Robert Graves is considered a classic. For the Germans, “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich von Remarque was considered to be such a potent anti-war book that Hitler banned it. Over the years both books have sold in large numbers. In recent years “The Last Fighting

I volunteered to join the war because I had dreams of wanderlust, to see the world.. however, the only "world" I am seeing is the waterlogged trench system. It's not like the calming petrichor at home which I dearly miss, no, it's the scent of mice and rotting corpses. The black rats we can handle, but the brown ones are something unlike anything I'd ever wanted to see. Those noxious cat-sized creatures rely on enemy artillery to provide them with meals, stripping men of their fleshly image. Not to mention, they are extremely difficult to eradicate; gunfire and bayonets don't quite do the job. Some tommies joked that a Bangalore Torpedo would scare them off, though as tempting as it seems, we would get in trouble with the commanders for wasting

This is Luigi writing to you, and I have gravely missed you. I am now in a dense forest in Northeastern France in the Aisne-Marne Sector near the town of Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood near the Marne River. Specifically, I am in a muddy, wet, rat infested trench. The German trench is farther north, and the area between the trenches is called “No Man’s Land”. I am a Private in the 3rd Infantry Brigade lead by Brigadier-General Lewis in the Battle of Belleau Wood. I am one of the people in combat in land, which is why I have to be present a lot of the fighting. This is part of a larger American 2nd Division lead by General Omar Bundy. Essentially, I am part of the US Army. In a typical day, I spend most of the time guarding the trench; however,

It isn't so useful for artillery fire though, it discovers its way through so we've still got to be on our guard. Throughout the nights, every man has to guard and isn't allowed to rest or be in the dugouts. These trenches aren't pleasant places to stand yet that is what we can do, particularly when we under attack. The trench is really muddy and wet, there is about a foot of water in the bottom of our trench and it rained each day and night. On the first day of the rain, my boot was literally dissolved in water, To add to the rain water, sometimes there are stinky leaks from the toilet, which makes the trenches more sloppy and muddy. It makes our feet icy and wet. Joe had it truly terrible a month ago. He had been standing in the trench for so long that his feet swelled and turned 3 times bigger It became infected and horrid. They said

I have been in tough conditions with the rain pouring down. I‘m trying not to step in the mud inside of our trenches as two soldiers have drowned because it is that deep. Others have had trench fever which is a highly contagious disease transmitted by lice It takes 12 weeks to recover.