The Western Front

The Western Front was a horrifying experience for the soldiers, a terrible world event. The conditions were bad, no down time and the men were on deaths door every second they spent in those trenches. The condition of those trenches were horrific, due to the amount of fire, sickness and infections with lice all around. Trench foot was an infection due to having their feet in the cold water for long spans of time losing the nerve in their foot. Gunfire was popping off every second with people subject to trench warfare spanning over 750km in distance. The total deaths recorded in the Western Front were truly significant in the seven figures with four million deaths 46,000 being Australian men

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