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!
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∙ 15y agoMany dead bodys were on no-mans land which attracted the rats. Soldiers,when they were bored, used to tease the rats with food and then kill them
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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.
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Becasue during German propaganda radio broadcasts 'Lord Haw Haw' as called by Allied troops, would refer to the Tobruk garrison as "poor desert rats of Tobruk", mocking them and saying that they were caught like rats in a trap, and that they could not get out. When he was saying this he was specificaly refering to the Australian troops, the 9th Division and 18th Brigade. They then adopted this and became known as the 'Rats of Tobruk'.
NO, NO ONE LIKES RATS.
The greatest killer of troops during WW1 was the flu virus, not military action.
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Because the soldier's corpses were covered in rats - so they smelt very bad, along with the temperature affecting the smell too. And also because the rats breed the most in the summer - so the trenches were rat infested.
Rats are Vermin creatures, who feed of the dead bodies of people who have died in war. Dead bodies in the trenches had to be taken far away to stop the rats coming to the trenches. All the soldiers hated the rats and used to beat them with spades for entertainment.
No, there were no donkeys in the trenches what so ever. Only men and rats.
rats and dead bodies
There were usually rats and lice in the trenches.
Trenches were long, narrow holes in the ground used to shelter soldiers in between the battles. These trenches were full of lice, rats and mud.
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lice and rats
Rats.
The trenches were Dirty, smelly, horrible places. You had other peoples corpses (dead bodies) everywhere. And there were also rats :(
For the soldiers life in the trenches was really tough. The soldiers shared there beds with mice and rats. Also it was not only summer whilst in the trenches it was also winter meaning frequent rain. This made the soldiers lives umbearable and gave them trench foot. Type that into the internet and you will see how horrific life for the soldiers realy was.