World War 1 in the Trenches In World War 1 anyone from 18-60 could serve in the war. Everyone in the war experienced the horrors and destruction of the war. Private Albert John Carpenter was gassed, Mark Lewis McCave was almost gunned down, Morris Albert Martin had to crawl around in the quagmires and mud of the trenches. Life for these soldiers was horrifying in the trenches, from getting shot at and gassed, to having to live in the mud amongst the dead bodies of people and horses. In World War One in the trenches, gas was introduced and made the warfare much more brutal. The treatment after getting poison gas was terrible. They were thrown right back into the fight afterwards. Private Albert John Carpenter said “Gas shell came over, did not get my gas mask on quick enough. Sent to the field hospital. Given 20 pills then sent back to the front lines.” He also said, “My lungs are very sore, and throwing up …show more content…
Most of the time, barely escaping the gunfire alive. Second lieutenant Mark Lewis McCave said “Flew over our position not more than 200 feet from the ground, waving their arms until they had a curious audience. Then they suddenly opened up with machine gun fire, luckily no one was hit.” Mark Lewis McCave was unloaded on and luckily survived, but they tricked them and could do nothing but take cover and pray. During World War One the living conditions were actually trash. Morris Albert Martin said: “This was a mess of tangled barbed wire, shell holes, shattered trees and buildings and then there were the bodies of men and horses. In rainy weather the trenches became unbelievable messes of quagmires and swamps.” He also said “In order to attack the enemy you needed to climb out of their trenches, and with fixed bayonets walk, run and crawl across this miserable place.” The trenches were muddy and wet and that could a lot of the time cause trench foot. They also had to crawl, get all wet and then