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Essay About Life In Ww1 Trenches

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Trenches are a place during WW1 where troops from either country, use to shoot the enemy of protect themselves from possible artillery attacks, There are ups and downs to trenches in WW1, the positives is that Trenches help the troops from being blown into 1 million pieces, also it helps them get a better, and safer way of the troops shooting the enemy. But the down sides of the Trenches are that the way of travel throughout the trenches is a wooden planks, which is a disadvantage because of the gaps between the wooden planks, which led to water from underneath the wooden planks getting to the soldiers boots, and inside their boots. This is bad because this could lead to a terrible disease called Trench foot which is basically a disease developed …show more content…

Life in the trenches were terrible, it wasn’t the nice life like most of us now, it was a harsh environment, because of the multiple bullets aiming for the soldiers heads and also it was a scary life, because at any moment a artillery could blow you up, or someone else could throw a grenade and it could end up in the trenches ending many soldiers life’s. Trench foot is also another disadvantage of staying in the trenches because trench foot was a bad disease, it could possibly end up with a soldier needing serious medical attention, or even at worst the soldiers foot needing to be amputated. The soldiers were recruited by the government, and the way they were persuaded to join the army was by posters and ‘encouragement posters,’ the posters that they had varied many ways, it was like posters that say that the civilians should step up and support their country. People who refused to join the army though were seen by the public as ‘cowards’ this was the selfish way that the government recruited soldiers, even over age people wanted to serve the country, but the government denied the service of over age people, but even after the government made the public seem like cowards, they still made some shops and pubs deny service of people who refused to join

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