![]() ![]() Was caused by cold wet conditions on the feet. Trench foot was also a common problem. It To things like bombs, sickness, and snipers people could even getīuried alive by explosions. The firing stopped death could still occur to a friend next to you do The time but usually someone of importance would break it up. Unofficial truce during breakfast time. Fire would usually stop during When did they start their day? There was an The day in the life of soldier fighting in World War I, especially if you were fighting in the trenches, Many types of germs and disease causing bacteria could live and did live in this water making life miserable for the combatants. Lice were the primary cause of Trench Fever, a disease that would begin with a sharp pain and a high fever afterward.Īs you can see in the pictures below the trenches would fill up with rain water. The eggs were laid in their dirty clothes and they were really difficult to get out, because they were hidden in the threads of clothing. Lice would breed quickly without even giving the soldiers a chance to find them. The rats were the spreaders of disease they would eat the dead bodies and when they bit a live soldier or a piece of food, the diseases would spread. If you fought on the war front, something as severe as a bullet or stab wound, or something as small as a scratch on the arm could lead to death.Disease was usually caused by rats and lice being in and around the food that was eaten. ![]() More than 200,000 men died in the first World War, yet most of the deaths were not caused by actually being shot dead instead, the disease and infection that could be acquired from a wide variety of things took the role as the main killer. ![]()
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