Facts about the life in trenches
 Trenches were very muddy, uncomfortable and the toilets overflowed.
These conditions caused some soldiers to develop medical problems
such as trench foot.
 Soldiers only got to sleep in the afternoon during daylight and at night
for an hour at a time. During rest time they wrote letters and played
card games.
 Trenches were 1-2 metres wide and 3 metres deep.
 Trenches usually had an embankment at the top and a barbed wire
fence.
 Trenches in World War 1 would be reinforced with sandbags and
wooden beams. In the trench itself, the bottom was covered with
wooden boards called duckboards.