WW1 top 10 facts

1. The men were so dirty that they had lice and more on there body.

2.Breakfast for a front line soldier would be a hard biscuit with jam or porridge if he was lucky.

3.Trenches had duck boards to keep the soldiers out of the sticky mud.

4.Not all the time did food arrive in good condition sometimes it had fell into a shell hole or it came under attack by the Germans.

5.Toilet paper in the trenches was made out of newspaper or the tail of the shirt they were wearing. When the USA came to war their soldiers were issued soft tissue toilet rolls.

6. 1 A soldier once counted 103 lice crawling about his body.

7. Not all men used a latrine (a toilet to you and me) they done it in their helmets and chucked the toilet out of the trench.

8.They didn’t find it easy to keep clean in the trenches because there was no showers or baths so they became dirty and smelly.

9.The men had loads of bugs on their body and they lived by sucking  blood so the man was dying and the bugs are living.

10. The soldiers loved to write home to their family but they can only write 1 letter in the letter they had to lie to their family about trench life.

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