https://padlet.com/aoifelovesdogs/pnewvmyw9261 What was it like to fight in WWI. en-us 2016-06-17 08:11:49 UTC 2025-11-27 08:58:47 UTC hello@padlet.com aoifelovesdogs https://padlet.com/aoifelovesdogs/pnewvmyw9261/wish/114895633 At the outbreak of war in 1914, the British Army had 700,000 available men. Germany’s wartime army was over 3.7 million. When a campaign for volunteers was launched, thousands answered the call to fight. Among them were 250,000 boys and young men under the age of 19, the legal limit for armed service overseas.]]> 2016-06-17 08:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/aoifelovesdogs/pnewvmyw9261/wish/114895633 aoifelovesdogs https://padlet.com/aoifelovesdogs/pnewvmyw9261/wish/114895787 Brig-Gen James Jack saw the First World War up close for longer than most. A regular officer who fought on the Western Front almost the whole way through, he was an austere man whose diary provides one of the most honest surviving descriptions of the war. On November 11, 1918, even Jack’s stiff upper lip seems at last to have quivered. He wrote of “a frightful four years” during which his soldiers “have suffered bravely, patiently and unselfishly, hardships and perils beyond even the imagination of those, including soldiers, who have not shared them”.]]> 2016-06-17 08:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/aoifelovesdogs/pnewvmyw9261/wish/114895787 aoifelovesdogs https://padlet.com/aoifelovesdogs/pnewvmyw9261/wish/114896383

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]]> 2016-06-17 08:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/aoifelovesdogs/pnewvmyw9261/wish/114896440 aoifelovesdogs https://padlet.com/aoifelovesdogs/pnewvmyw9261/wish/114896441 2016-06-17 08:38:06 UTC https://padlet.com/aoifelovesdogs/pnewvmyw9261/wish/114896441 aoifelovesdogs https://padlet.com/aoifelovesdogs/pnewvmyw9261/wish/114896513 A trench system provided a great deal of protection in World War One. It consisted of a frontline trench, a support trench and a reserve trench. Connecting these trenches to one another were communication trenches, where men from one trench could easily communicate with the men within the other trenches. All trenches were designed to be deep enough to conceal the men from enemy fire. Metre after metre of barbed wire was laid out ahead of the trenches to provide even more protection from storming troops. Each trench contained a fire step, on which a soldier could fire at, or briefly observe the enemy trenches. The trenches also acquired a zigzagged look, which would unable an enemy troop to fire down the trenches. That is, if they were able to capture one.]]> 2016-06-17 08:38:59 UTC https://padlet.com/aoifelovesdogs/pnewvmyw9261/wish/114896513 aoifelovesdogs https://padlet.com/aoifelovesdogs/pnewvmyw9261/wish/114896568   At times of heavy enemy bombardments, the troops would take cover in underground tunnels. The German tunnels were about 15 metres bellow ground, much deeper than the French or British tunnels. That was because the Germans wanted to stay where they were, and fight a defensive war on enemy turf. The British and French hadn’t enough time to fight a defensive war. They needed to push the Germans out of France and Belgium.]]> 2016-06-17 08:39:58 UTC https://padlet.com/aoifelovesdogs/pnewvmyw9261/wish/114896568 aoifelovesdogs https://padlet.com/aoifelovesdogs/pnewvmyw9261/wish/114896842

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