Condition What does the evidence reveal about What does Extra Notes
conditions? the evidence
reveal about
how soldiers
felt/attitude
towards to
the
conditions?
Weather • Rain and
Conditions snow
transform the
battlefield
into a morass
of heavy thick
mud that
made soldiers
particularly
difficult.
• Cold and wet
conditions
produced
numerous
medical
problems
• Battles rarely
let up during
times
extreme
weathers
conditions.
Waterlogg Our trenches are... ankle deep mud. In One does not
ed some places trenches are waist deep in have time to
trenches water. Time is spent digging, filling be weary.
sandbags, building up parapets, fetching
stores, etc. I haven't had
The communication trenches are simply a wash since
canals, up to the waist in some parts, the we came into
rest up to the knees. There are only a few these
dug-outs and those are full of water or trenches and
falling in. Three men were killed this way we are all
from falling dug-outs. We set to work to mud from
try and drain it. Our efforts were head to foot
hampered by the fact that the French,
who had first occupied it, had buried their
dead in the bottom and sides. Every
stroke of the pick encountered a body. The
smell was awful.
Trench Your feet swell to two or three times their Yucky, painful,
foot normal size and go completely dead. You dead, sad
could stick a bayonet into them and not
feel a thing. If you are fortunate enough
not to lose your feet and the swelling
begins to go down. It is then that the
intolerable, indescribable agony begins. I
have heard men cry and even scream
with the pain and many had to have their
feet and legs amputated.
conditions? the evidence
reveal about
how soldiers
felt/attitude
towards to
the
conditions?
Weather • Rain and
Conditions snow
transform the
battlefield
into a morass
of heavy thick
mud that
made soldiers
particularly
difficult.
• Cold and wet
conditions
produced
numerous
medical
problems
• Battles rarely
let up during
times
extreme
weathers
conditions.
Waterlogg Our trenches are... ankle deep mud. In One does not
ed some places trenches are waist deep in have time to
trenches water. Time is spent digging, filling be weary.
sandbags, building up parapets, fetching
stores, etc. I haven't had
The communication trenches are simply a wash since
canals, up to the waist in some parts, the we came into
rest up to the knees. There are only a few these
dug-outs and those are full of water or trenches and
falling in. Three men were killed this way we are all
from falling dug-outs. We set to work to mud from
try and drain it. Our efforts were head to foot
hampered by the fact that the French,
who had first occupied it, had buried their
dead in the bottom and sides. Every
stroke of the pick encountered a body. The
smell was awful.
Trench Your feet swell to two or three times their Yucky, painful,
foot normal size and go completely dead. You dead, sad
could stick a bayonet into them and not
feel a thing. If you are fortunate enough
not to lose your feet and the swelling
begins to go down. It is then that the
intolerable, indescribable agony begins. I
have heard men cry and even scream
with the pain and many had to have their
feet and legs amputated.
