real guide to the trenches
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EQUIPMENT
A STANDARD SOLDIER GETS:-
Ground sacks
Shovel
Haversack-
Tined food
Toilet equipment
Sandbags
226 rounds of ammunition
Water bottle
Rifle and bayonet
Gas mask
Grenades
This weighs about a 1/3 of a soldiers body weight. The equipment is basic and grenades are very dangerous, NOT good.
GOING OVER THE TOP
This is basically suicide. You charge the enemy going over the trenches into no mans land while being shot at and bombarded with bombs and try and get across to the enemy and take there trench. Most people died when they when over the top. Your best bet is to jump into a hole made by a bomb and stay there. Say to your captain you couldn't get out.
DEATH
This is very likely so I should probably tell you what is going to happen. You will be buried in a mass grave with probably a big plaque or cross with all the names on including yours. This is temporary as you will be buried (what's left of you) later in a separate grave not very noble but you died for your country...