Trench Warfare Information
Life in the trenches during the First World War took many forms, and varied widely
from sector to sector and from front to front. They all knew death and the smell that followed, that smell would haunt them for the rest of their lives. The soldiers were never alone, if there was not a soldier, there would always be a rat or some kind of other rodent. Rats would eat the dead humans and the rats some rats grew up to a size of about a cat. Men used to kill the rats with bullets, shovels, or anything that they had in their hands. Lice was a giant factor during this war, it was literally impossible to get rid of the lice even when they washed themselves, and lice also caused trench fever, a disease with lots of pain. Recovery for some people took up to about 12 weeks.