1. Trench Life of
World War I
By: Sylvia and Karolina

2. Hardships…

3. Shell Shock
 Also known as
combat fatigue
 80,000 men suffered
 Soldiers were
classified as
“malingeres”
 Committed suicide

4. Dysentery
 Inflammation of large
intestines
 Stomach pains &
diarrhea
 Vomiting and high
fever
 Soldiers could die
 Caused by
contaminated water

5. Body Lice
 Left blotchy red marks
 Created sour and
stale smell
 Caused scratching
 Carried disease
 Disease didn’t kill

6. Trench Rats
 Ate dead bodies
 Stole food
 Were later found
inside humans

7. The Trench
System…

8. Frontline trenches
 Timetable
 8 days in a trench
 Enemy shells

9. Barbed Wire No man’s land
 Protected by barbed
wire
 No enemy could get
in
 Bangalore torpedo
 Dead bodies
 Abandoned artillery

10. Listening Posts / Machine Gun
Posts
 No “Surprise Attacks”
 Information on enemy
 Pill boxes

11. Trench Warfare /
Gas…

12. Chlorine Gas
 Ypres, Germany
 Big, yellow, green
cloud of smoke and
pineapple / pepper
smell
 Killed victims within
48 hours

13. Mustard Gas
 Most lethal
 Odorless
 Took 12 hours to take
affect
 Stripped off mucus
membrane
 4-5 weeks to die

14. QUESTIONS……

15. Bibliography
 John Simkin. “Trench Warfare”
3 May 2006. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWtrench.htm
 Realities of War: The Trenches, Weapons, and Death. |Online video clip|
html. http://www.unitedstreaming.com/index.cfm
 Shell Shock during World war One [online image]
8 May 2006
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwone/images/ss_effectsof_shellshock.
jpg
 Shell Shock Patient [online image]
8 May 2006 http://www.wfa-usa.org/new/jpg/sshock5.jpg
 Body Lice Body Louse [online image]
8 May 2006 http://www.micropest.com/photos/body-lice-louse.jpg
 British casualties of a chlorine gas…[online image]
8 May 2006 http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/canvas/tre/images/cwc1046.jpg.

16. Bibliography Part # 2
 Mustard Gas is treated during WWI [online image]
8 May 2006
http://knowmore.org/images/thumb/9/92/180px-Mustard_gas.jpg
 Mustard gas molecule.gif [online image]
8 May 2006 http://www.impgames.com/images/Mustard%20gas%20molecule.gif
 Water Points [online image]
8 May 2006 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWdystentry.htm
 Dead Germans in Trenches [online image]
8 May 2006 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWfrontline.htm
 Paths of Glory [online image]
8 May 2006 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWnoman.htm
 Capture of a British Block house
8 May 2006 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWposts.htm