WW1 looking how it effected soldiers ( through war poetry)

• WW1 went on for 4 years 3 months and 2 weeks from 28/7/1914 - 11/11/1918
• Its started with the assassination of Archduke  Franz Ferdinand of Austria
• Trench warfare was used and explosions in France could be heard in London

 In the trenches

The trenches were muddy and very unsanitary with rudimentary facilities and was full of pests like lice and rats Infection was rife and there was no Antibiotics and fragments from shells flew everywhere inflicting sever wounds worse the bullets soldiers would get ill from exposure and the poor sanitation they would get diseases such as Cholera, typhus and dysentery. Weaponry such as flamethrowers were used and so was Gases such as Mustard-gas Chlorine and Phosgene.

Effects of Gas Attacks

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_weapons_in_World_War_I

The earliest military uses of chemicals were tear-inducing irritants rather than fatal or disabling poisons. During the first World War, the French army was the first to employ gas, using 26 mm grenades filled with tear gas (ethyl bromoacetate) in August 1914. The small quantities of gas delivered, roughly 19 cm³ per cartridge, were not even detected by the Germans. The stocks were rapidly consumed and by November a new order was placed by the French military.


Chlorine gas . Based on the soldiers' description of chlorine gas, it had the distinctive smell of a mixture of pepper and pineapple. It also tasted metallic and stung the back of the throat and chest. Chlorine gas often reacts with water in the mucosa of the lungs to form hydrochloric acid, an irritant that can be lethal.