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Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

A harrowing glimpse at the first world war.

By Carly Tennes

Published 7 months ago in Creepy

Throughout the four-year span of WW I, soldiers toiled away in the trenches, battling not only the enemy, but shell shock, trench foot, and other harrowing consequences of this brutal type of combat. 


From sleeping soldiers to the glow of nighttime bombings, here's what it looked like to be in the trenches of World War I. 

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    A soldier wields his gun, August 1916.

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    “German soldier helps light a cigarette for his Romanian ally. World War II, Eastern Front, 1941.”

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    A white phosphorus bomb detonates during a night attack, 1918.

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    A British soldier befriends a family of rabbits, whose underground home was disturbed by the digging of the trench.

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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Soldiers crouch as they run through a trench, 1917.

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    British troops write, sit in a trench o the Western Front.

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    Canadian soldiers rest, write letters from their trench.

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    Tired soldiers rest in some of the sleeping shelters crafted during World War I

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    British soldiers set up shop in a captured German trench.

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    “France lost more soldiers between 1914 and 1918 than the USA in its whole history.”

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    Australian soldiers prepare themselves a meal while on the frontlines.

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    A British despatch rider bikes through a “communication trench.”

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    “Soldiers with the British Machine Gun Corps wear gas masks in 1916 during World War I's first Battle of the Somme.”

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    British Army officer Colonel Philip. R. Robertson wades through a flooded trench, January 1915.

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    “An Australian Soldier wading through the mud in the Trenches of France - December 1916.”

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    “Ottoman soldiers in Galica, World War I.”

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    “Captured Russian loopholes that are mobile and can change position at will. German World War I postcard.”

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    “Trench warfare at night captured by a British photographer, 1917.”

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    “The Serbian Army in World War I, 1910’s.”

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    “Prussian soldiers in WWI.”

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    “1918: An Indian Lewis gun team engages an enemy aircraft in Mesopotamia during World War I, as other soldiers run for the cover of slit trenches.”

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

  • 22

    "The MacAdam Shield Shovel was designed to give Canadian soldiers extra protection while fighting in the trenches of World War I. It was made from 3/16ths inch thick steel and had a 3.5x2 inch hole in it. 1910's."

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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    “An American sniper takes aim at the Germans from the trenches in France during World War I, c. 1918.”

    Here's What It Looked Like To Be In the Trenches of World War I

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