What Were Conditions Like In Trenches In WW1?

They were awful. There was rats eating rotting bodies, producing 900 babies from just one couple. Lice was embedded in the uniforms and hatched, producing trench fever. Hygiene was terrible, so if you were wounded that usually got infected and typhus and gangrene were common. In the summer, it was stifling and almost unbearable to live in. You had to be sweating in your uniform all day, smelly and uncomfortable. In the winter it was even worse...sometimes it rained so much that the trenches filled with muddy water, which made the hygiene even worse. A few times, the trenches collapsed inwards from the constant rain and it caused chaos for all the men. When it snowed or was icy, it was bitterly cold and men probably died from hypothermia. Yet men still had to Go Over, face the enemy and watch their friends die on top of everything else. I have solid respect for them!