Trench attitudes

Photo essay
Photo 1: http://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/sensuous-life-inthe-trenches (british)

Photo 2: see https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/H12401/

Photo 3: Source: colinbenton http://hubpages.com/literature/World-War-OneWWI-WW1-Cummings-Etc-Etcetera-Poem# (nationality?)

Photo 4:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/acatholicthinker/2014/08/what-thepope-said-about-world-war-i/ or pinterest (nationality?)

photo 5: British in gas masks

Photo 6: Front trench National library of Scotland

Photo 7: Shave and Clean up after coming out of the trenches,

National library of Scotland

Photo 8: SOliders comrades watching himas he sleeps, National

library of Scotland

Photo 9: British Soliders possession of German Old Hun Line,

National library of Scotland

Photo 10: Christmas day paper hats mirror watching nomans land ,
PA/PAArchive/PressAssociationImages

Photo 11: British Soldiers in dugout, NationalLibraryofScotland

Photo 12: Battle of Somme, 1916, nearby Flers. British solider looks
out of dugout on dead german. NationalLibraryofScotland

Photo13:wetandmuddytrench,NationalLibraryofScotland

Photo 14: Snow british see

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/H09043/

Photo 15: flood see https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/H09033/

Photo 16: Trench mess see

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/H09212/

Photo 17: Cards see https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/H08476/

Photo 18: Warm hands

Photo 19: Muddy Trench allinfo

Sources:
http://www.bobbrookes.co.uk/bernard.htm Christmas Truce Diary
Entry

One appreciated in a new light the meaning of Christianity,

for it certainly was marvellous that such a change in the
attitude of the opposing armies could be wrought by an
Event which happened nigh on 2000 years ago.
The Germs wanted to continue a partial truce until the
New Year, for as some of them said, they were heartily
sick of the war, and did not want to fight, but as we were
leaving the trenches early next morning, and naturally did
not want them to know, we insisted on the truce ending at
midnight, at which time our artillery sent over to them four
shells of small calibre to let them know that the truce, at
which the whole World would wonder, was ended, and in
its place, death and bloodshed would once more reign
supreme
I was not particularly hungry but nearly mad with thirst, so
much so that I urinated in my water bottle and tried to drink it,
but that of course was out of the question and the business of
spitting it quickly out only increased my thirst. I felt very weak
and my ribs were very sore, the weight of my clothing and
equipment aggravating the damaged spot. It never occurred to
me to take off any equipment as I thought I might be called on at
any time to fight for my life. Diary http://www.harrysww1.co.uk/chapter2b.html
During the afternoon a chap looked over where the trench was
shallow, and said, Look! I can see the German line! But that was
the last thing he saw. He slumped down in the trench, shot through
the brain.
- George Mitchell Mitchell, G D 1937, Backs to the wall, Angus &
Robertson, Sydney, N.S.W.

Great, sleek, corpse-fed rats ran in squads between our legs and
over our feet as we stood. Their obscene squeaking could be heard
at all times. Some men conceived an unmeasured hatred of these
loathsome things, and were always trying to slaughter them. I
wondered, as I stood, did they picture themselves as those
scattered corpses- a prey to these. Imagination is decidedly not
good for a soldier. It is one of the things Kipling forgot to tell us.
Mitchell, G D 1937, Backs to the wall, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, N.S.W.