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The Trenches In WW1 the trenches was used a lot. In fact some trenches would go over most of the country. War was a horrible experience for most, however that was not the only way to die. Many people died of infectious diseases caused by the rodents( rats ). There were two main types, the brown and the black rat. Both were despised but the brown rat was especially feared. Gorging themselves on human remains (grotesquely disfiguring them by eating their eyes and liver) they could grow to the size of a cat. Most men were terrified of these rats ,which would even scamper across their faces in the dark. As a result they would attempt to rid the trenches of them by various methods: gunfire, with the bayonet, and even by clubbing them to death.

There was many more other ways to die such as when no raid or attack was launched or defended against. In busy sectors the constant shellfire directed by the enemy brought random death, whether their victims were lounging in a trench or lying in a dugout (many men were buried as a consequence of such large shell-bursts).

German trench Similarly, novices were cautioned against their natural inclination to peer over the parapet of the trench into No Man's Land.

By Khatra Abdi :)