Trench Warfare In WW1

Trench warfare was adopted to maintain an area of land, to prevent the enemy from capturing that land. The importance of this investigation was to show the significance of trench warfare during the First World War and how effective it was on how it had prevented many full on, front lined, assaults. World War I could have had a great impact in history with the amount of war casualties, which would have been historically shocking, but instead it created the stalemate, which prevented such numbers of deaths from happening.

World War I was known for its very slow-paced battle and the stage of stalemate. After advancing from Germany on France, battle turned into trench warfare. Trench Warfare is a defensive strategy in a field where the army stays in rows of trenches that were placed along the Western Front during the war. The use of trenches during the Great War was a very significant tactic during battle, by making soldiers hidden but exposed just enough to be able to attack the enemy. On a daily basis, life in the trenches was very scary and filled with horror. Death was upon the soldiers even if there was nobody attacking them. There was a continuous shell fire that would randomly take the lives of many. Some men died on their first day in the trenches, and very few were lucky to make it out unharmed. Shell fire was not the only issue in the trenches. There were plenty of diseases and infections spreading around like a wildfire. Many soldiers got infections and diseases that could not be treated such as Trench Foot or Trench Fever. Although trench warfare acts as a great defensive and offensive measure, it became very dangerous because of the many different causes of death including shell fire, diseases, and infections.

World War I was known for its very slow-paced battle and the stage of stalemate. After advancing from Germany on France, battle turned into trench warfare. Trench Warfare is a defensive strategy in a field where the army stays in rows of trenches that were placed along the Western Front during the war. The use of trenches during the Great War was a very significant tactic during battle, by making soldiers hidden but exposed just enough to be able to attack the enemy. On a daily basis, life in the trenches was very scary and filled with horror. Death was upon the soldiers even if there was nobody attacking them. There was a continuous shell fire that would randomly take the lives of many. Some men died on their first day in the trenches, and very few were lucky to make it out unharmed. Shell fire was not the only issue in the trenches. There were plenty of diseases and infections spreading around like a wildfire. Many soldiers got infections and diseases that could not be treated such as Trench Foot or Trench Fever. Although trench warfare acts as a great defensive and offensive measure, it became very dangerous because of the many different causes of death including shell fire, diseases, and infections.

Intro: The life for the average soldier in the WW1 trenches was pretty horrible. They had to live in mud, fellow dead soldiers and lots of rats, some the size of your hand. Life of a soldier was very tough, having to see your best mate get shot and he left to rot. Any soldiers that made it out of the war would have suffered either shell shock or post-traumatic stress disorder and living with either of these would have been terrible.

In World War 1, there were many new tactics that war has never seen before. Trench warfare was one of the new tactics that they used in World War 1. They used the trenches for many things. In World War 1 and All Quiet on the Western Front. They are an accurate portrayal of each other because of the way they fought while in cover, built them, and the way they put all their resources in them.

Trench warfare was implemented to provide cover for soldiers during battle in WW1 seeing that most battlefields were open field & farms, so soldiers had little or no cover from rifle fire. After suffering thousands of casualties, soldiers began to dig into the ground creating cover. Over the months the trenches grew & evolved to hold barracks & equipment. Within a few months trenches were equipped with all essentials to ensure there was no need to leave them unnecessarily. Trenches were first dug by hand but soon soldiers would be equipped with shovels to increase productivity. Trenches were also mainly built at night to avoid detection by enemy troops.

Soon the machine gun became a defensive weapon rather than an offensive weapon, as it was used to stop offensive enemy troops across this no man’s land. Gas was used infinitely by both sides in an effort to triumph over the trenches. If any trench was taken by an opposing force, a succeeding trench was dug just meters behind the one taken, making advancements longstanding and difficult. In this process many troops lost their lives, more so than any other war.

The men in the First Canadian Division were easy to connect with mama. Lots of them were farmers, factory workers and business owners just like our family members. In Valcartier, I met Riley during our four week training. We were buddies during our winter training in Salisbury Plain too. In Salisbury Plain, we learned basic military skills such as shooting and aiming. Riley was surprised of the little instruction of trench warfare though. Like the words on the propaganda posters, he was eager on "becoming a man."

Aspects of Trench Warfare 1. Trenches were built in an attempt to continue the war as both sides had reached a stalemate. There was a rush for the sea and then they found nothing else could happen so they dug in. The resulting trench system on the Western Front not only covered the equivalent of 25,000 miles (enough to encircle the world) but also stretched non-stop from Belgium to Switzerland.

This was when people were in essentially big holes in the ground with barricades in front of them. Trench life was very hard because you watched your friends die, and had to just see them lie there when it wasnt safe to move their bodies, you were in the trenches for hours on end, and typically were attacked straight in the trenches instead of in the middle of the battlefield. There were rats that picked at human remains, and the smell of rotting flesh. "No Man's Land" was the land between two fronts, not claimed by either

Trench Warfare is when “opposing armed forces attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of trenches.” This type of warfare was already developed by the seventeenth century in the form of siege operation. There are many examples of trench warfare during World War I including the use of it at the Western Front. Although success sometimes resulted in the use of this warfare, trench warfare was ultimately an ineffective military tactic because it did not provide the protection that was necessary, battles did not progress, and sicknesses were easily spread. One reason that trench warfare was an ineffective military tactic is sicknesses were easily spread.

In World War 1 trench warfare could be shown as terrible but amazing at the same time. Trench Warfare could be viewed as good because twisted trenches made within WWl could prevent bombings due to the zigzag shape shape of them it would be hard to bomb them, but it would also make deaths within them easier than usual too due to the fact that grenades could be thrown in and kill many soldiers at once. Deaths included grenades, bombings, bullets, etc. In a close area it is a lot easier for deaths to happen. Diseases, new technology, and the dampness of trenches among sides caused mass deaths among the soldiers in war during this time which could argue was trench warfare actually good.

Combat during World War 1 was a strange mix of brutal combat and boredom. WWI is mostly known for its trench warfare. Soldiers would dig trenches in the ground and fight from there. Trench warfare was extremely boring, and sometimes, the soldiers would act like they aren’t fighting a war at all. The movie, Gallipoli, showed men skinny dipping on a beach with the fighting taking place nearby. The movie showed men hanging out in the trenches, and some of them were even sleeping in small holes in the trenches. The area between opposing trenches was known as no-man’s land. Traversing this landscape was extremely dangerous and fatal. There was no cover, and the area was a kill zone with all the machine guns and enemy troops in the opposing trenches.

Firstly, living virtually underground was a dark, murky, often freezing and miserable living. The trenches were thick enough to hide a man's head toward sniper fire, so they were dug deep underground and dug by hand. Rains made the walkways a difficulty. Rats bred and spread infection at all times because all the men's meals were also below ground. Shells fell most commonly into the trenches, causing massive losses and the destruction of trench walls and the underground living quarters. Perhaps the cruellest features of Trench Warfare was at the start of a major battle when the troops were ordered 'Over The Top' to attack the opposing trenches. They had to advance through heavy automated machine gun fire and exploding shells, all through mazes

Trenches were the front line of the war, the trenches were the most dangerous place for any soldier. There were only a small proportion of soldiers in trenches. Trenches were first introduced in 1914 when the 1st World War began so soldiers had more protection from projectiles. The trenches were made up of training establishments, workshops, army headquarters and anything else which was needed during the war.