Life in the trenches included the risk of getting trench foot. Prolonged damp exposure to the feet would result and the British Army was ordered to change their socks twice a day.
War as a Way of Life
Life in the trenches included the risk of getting trench foot. Prolonged damp exposure to the feet would result and the British Army was ordered to change their socks twice a day.
A common sight in the trenches: living in mud.
Field Punishment Number One was used on British soldiers for various offenses in the field. Quite often, they were tied down within range of enemy artillery.
Evacuating the wouned and dead from the front was a constant task in this destructive, modern war.
How an officer would have looked after 3 weeks
Rats in the trenches were so common that cartoonists took the opportunity to include this condition in their commentaries.
Food rations in the trenches became more scarce as the war dragged on past Christmas, 1914.
Trench Foot untreated could result in amputation.
Aside from the massive numbers of dead soldiers, countless thousands were maimed for life.
Many teens enlisted in the military unaware of the carnage that awaited them.
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