Trench

Originally Answered: What does war smell like? Gunpowder, farts, sweat, BO, garbage, and smoke. What does it smell like during war? The pungent stench of sulfur wrought by exploding gunpowder dominated the battlefields of the Civil War. With the firing of tens of thousands of muskets and hundreds of cannons, the distinct smell of gunpowder […]

War is full of smells. “Stay in a hospital during a war and you will be come accustomed to the chemical smell of blood,” writes journalist Robert Fisk in The Independent as he reflects on his years in the Middle East. Philip Caputo recalls the stench of 8,000 corpses in the Golan Heights during October […]

The most common food given to soldiers was bread, coffee, and salt pork. The typical ration for every Union soldier was about a pound of meat and a pound of bread or flour. The Confederacy started out following the same rules. What kind of food do soldiers eat? MREs are basically instant meals that soldiers […]

Rats are eaten regularly in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, parts of the Philippines and Indonesia, Thailand, Ghana, China and Vietnam, says Grant Singleton, from the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines. What happens if you eat rats? Most infected experience minor symptoms such as headaches, fever, vomiting, or diarrhea, while 1 in 10 infections can […]

The Gambian pouched rat is native to Africa and is the world’s largest rat, reaching up to 9 pounds. The average size is 3 pounds, measuring 20-35 inches from the head to the tip of the tail. The body is gray to brown in color, with a lighter belly. How big is the biggest rat […]

Once the smokeless magazine rifle arrived in the 1890s, black powder no longer obscured the soldier’s field of vision (vi). Battles were bigger and less ritualized and with the rise of military photography, it made sense to dress for camouflage rather than spectacle. In an effort to modernize, they switched to khaki. Why do soldiers […]

Wash clothes When soldiers left the front line trenches they could use special laundries to wash and change their clothes. Washing their clothes removed any lice but this was often only a temporary relief as the lice would reappear after they returned to the confined spaces of the front line. How did they clean the […]

Originally Answered: Do rats eat people? NO. If a group of starving rats were left in a room with a corpse, of course they’d eat it. Meat is meat. Will rats eat a dead person? Such attacks on humans are rare, though hungry rats do sometimes feed on corpses. Are rats attracted to corpses? Many […]

Every 10 months to 18 months. Every 10 months to 18 months – sometimes longer, sometimes shorter but usually about 12 months – we came on 10 days leave. That’s when we packed all our gear, went home complete with the dirt we’d accumulated in the front line, and then went home. How often did […]

A soldier’s average life expectancy while in the trenches was six weeks. Some of the people who were mostly at risk of early death were the junior officers and the stretcher bearers. What was the survival rate of a ww1 soldier? “Of the original thousand men (who served from the opening of the war), nearly […]

World War I A private, private second class, or bugler in his first year of service in 1917 was entitled to $30 a month. In exchange for this salary, which would equate to $558.12 today, privates could expect to face the guns of the Germans and other Axis powers. How much did British ww1 soldiers […]

4 million non-white men. Even by conservative estimates, well over 4 million non-white men were mobilised into the European and American armies during the War, in both combat and non-combat roles. How many non white soldiers were included in ww1? four million non-white menEven by conservative estimates well over four million non-white men were mobilised […]

France. More than three million men fought in the battle and one million men were wounded or killed, making it one of the deadliest battles in human history. Battle of the Somme. Date 1 July 1916 – 18 November 1916 (141 days) Location Somme River, north-central Somme and south-eastern Pas-de-Calais Départements, France 50°00′56″N 02°41′51″E Where […]

The last combat veteran was Claude Choules, who served in the British Royal Navy (and later the Royal Australian Navy) and died 5 May 2011, aged 110. The last veteran who served in the trenches was Harry Patch (British Army), who died on 25 July 2009, aged 111. How many ww1 survivors are left? As […]

Totals for the AEF were recorded at 192,000 cases of influenza, 29,000 of pneumonia, and a total of 13,000 deaths. By War Department estimate, 25% of the Army, over 1 million men, fell ill. Army-wide, influenza and pneumonia accounted for nearly 30,000 deaths, more than half the 52,000 non-combat deaths during the war. How many […]

German Shepherds were used for the work, which consisted of searching for a soldier and bringing their handler to them. The dogs were trained at Fort Riley, Kansas. After World War II ended, the American Red Cross began a therapy dog program, which continued until at least 2019. What breed was Stubby The war dog? […]

At least 2 million died from diseases and 6 million went missing, presumed dead. How many people died due to disease in ww1? Total losses in combat theaters from 1914–1918 were 876,084, which included 418,361 killed, 167,172 died of wounds, 113,173 died of disease or injury, 161,046 missing and presumed dead and 16,332 prisoner of […]

German Shepherd The most common use was as sentry dogs. Their keen senses allowed them to detect enemy movements in the trenches from distances that simply aren’t possible for a human. What was the most famous dog in ww1? Sergeant StubbySergeant Stubby—The Most Decorated Dog of World War I He won the heart of Private […]

Dogs played an important military role for most European armies during World War I, serving in a variety of tasks. Dogs hauled machine gun and supply carts. They also served as messengers, often delivering their missives under a hail of fire. Why did they bring dogs to war? During war time, dogs have been used […]

Dogs played an important military role for most European armies during World War I, serving in a variety of tasks. Dogs hauled machine gun and supply carts. They also served as messengers, often delivering their missives under a hail of fire. What were dogs role in the trenches? “There were fewer dogs in the trenches, […]