Large rats lice There were also messenger animals like pigeons and dogs which were used to carry important messages across. Some of these animals even received medals.
When soldiers dropped food and things like that, that would attract rats. The rats started living in the trenches in small holes and things like that. As they multiplied they became bolder and started eating while men were around. This is the gross bit. The rats became so big they started eating corpses of men!
Guns and trench warfare were such a deadly combination because a soldier could fire into a foxhole or trench without even looking and fatally would people. Throwing a grenade was very easy too because the people in the trench had nowhere to go to escape.
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Trench Rats can refer to the Nation Organization of Trench Rats, a fraternal organization of veterans who served in the trenches in various wars, or to the black rats (Rattus rattus) and brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) feeding on food scraps and decaying corpses of unburied soldiers in WWI and WWII.
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they spread the plague, again.
No, Trench Warfare was very detrimental to their health, as the men had to live through diseases in the trench, rats contaminating everything, and poor sanitation.
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Trench foot, not sleeping, rats and paranoia. ps. hudson w/h chabelo w/h
Rats and Lice, Trench foot and shell shock
The diseases, such as gangrene and trench foot, the war itself, and the weather conditions.
There were rats, one could get trench-foot (from the moisture), you could be buried alive in an explosion, and many contracted lice (from rats) as well.
they were worse then the enemy some of the soldiers said they were thriving in the trenches and eating any waste left behind from the soldiers there were millions of them over populating in all the trench wars be it Eastern, Italian, Gallipoli, Western Front they lived and thrived there it was a nightmare for the soldiers.