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All the soldiers had the thought in their mind that everyone was going to die in the trenches.

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Boredom was a big problem in the trenches because there was a lot of waiting around for something to happen.

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The french trenches were poorly built because they didn't think they would be there for very long.

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The German trenches had electricity and sometime running water.

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Troops would have to patrol no man's land and if they ran into the enemy they would either walk their separate ways of engage in hand to hand sighting so the machine guns would not fire at them.

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After being washed the eggs would still be on the soldiers clothes and then would hatch due to the body heat of the soldiers.

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Lice eggs would be attached to the soldiers clothes, even after being washed the eggs would still stay in their clothes.

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Men would shave all of their hair off to protect against nits.

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The brown rat was more feared by the soldiers than the black rat.

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There were two main types of rats the Brown and Black rat.

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The soldiers would try to kill the rats because a single rat couple could produce up to 900 offspring in a year.

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Some soldiers had to wash themselves in stagnant puddles of water that gathered in shell craters.

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The men and their section would stay on the front line for at least 4 days than 4 days in the reserve.

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Parts of the trenches had wood placed down on the ground so they didn't have to walk through the mud.

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In Italy they had to dig through rocks and in the desert.

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In Belgium instead of digging the trenches they where build up with sand bags.

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The trenches in France chalky and easy to dig but the walls would collapse if it rained.

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Trench foot was more of a problem during the beginning of the war.

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Trench foot was more of a problem during the beginning of the war.

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Trench foot was a disease that was a fungus that grew on you foot because of the cold wet unsanitary conditions.

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Many men died on their first day because they would peer over the top of the trench and get shot by a sniper.

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Most of the soldiers had lice, which led to the spread of many diseases.

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Rats infested the trenches and could grow to the size of a cat.

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The toilets would overflow into the trenches.

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They smelled bad because the deceased were buried all around the trenches.

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The trenches were very muddy.

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During rest time they wrote letters and played card games.

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They were woken up only to do daily chores and to fight.

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The only chances they had to sleep were in the afternoon and for about an hour at night.

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Soldiers in the trenches did not get much sleep.