They had grenades, rifle grenades, mortars, and many types of machine guns. Weapons in the trenchesĪt the beginning of the war, most soldiers carried only a rifle and a bayonet.Īs the war went on, armies used more weapons to help their troops fight in trenches and across No Man’s Land. Soldiers usually had to go back to war after only a few days’ rest. There were about 80,000 cases of shell shock in the British army alone during World War I. Doctors know now that it was also a type of nerve problem, but in the past, they thought it was just caused by the exploding shells. Shell shock is a nervous breakdown from war. Soldiers who were exposed to exploding shells had many symptoms like anxiety, nightmares, and impaired sight and hearing. It first appeared as a medical condition in February 1915, about six months after the Great War began. The problem was called “shell shock” then. Many people in the military had PTSD problems during World War I. The hippocampus is also larger in people with PTSD. People with PTSD get scared more often than other people and they have a part of their brain that remembers things more. The person will have the energy to run away and, at the same time, not remember anything that’s happening. Thousands of years ago, when soldiers were fighting in a war, they would get PTSD too. People have had this problem for a long time. When something bad happens, it can make you feel scared and sad.
The enemy was not always visible and it was hard to know when you might die. In trench warfare, there were random shots and sniper fire. Soldiers got tired and stressed from living in the trenches and getting constantly killed or wounded. They were always being attacked by snipers and artillery. The fighting in the trenches for soldiers was hard. On the other side of the trenches, there were Allied. On one side of the trenches, they were German. There were paths that soldiers could take to move between the levels. Trenches weren’t straight lines they had a zigzag pattern with many different levels along the lines.
Most trenches were 1-2 meters wide and 3 meters deep. There were over 2,500 kilometers of trenches dug during World War I. This caused some of the soldiers to develop medical problems like trench foot. The toilets overflowed too, which made the conditions even worse. The trenches were long and narrow ditches dug into the ground where soldiers lived.
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