The experience of the Battle of the

Somme was terrible as there were diseases and rat infestations and even a point where one of the soldiers were screaming so loud it had probably made most the soldiers go insane. At first it was fine as they had just gotten into the trenches, and they were adapting to it and getting used to it. It was fine until they had realised that most of their men were getting trench foot or what we now call today, athletes’ foot. They fixed this problem by putting wooden boards on the floor to prevent them from getting trench foot. This then led to another problem where mice were going around, and they had carried many diseases with them.

(Reference photo not actual photo from the Somme) soldiers covering their ears to block out the sound of the other soldier screams.

They had ultimately tried to kill the mice themselves using anything they can other than their guns and ammo. Eventually after they had thought they dealt with everything all of them had then heard this loud ear-piercing scream coming from the front. They had realised one of their soldiers had fallen into the barbed wire. They tried to get him out of there, but two soldiers got shot and killed which led them to abandon that mission. His loud screaming went on for hours and everyone had tried to block their ears but out of guilt they could not get that scream out of their head. Eventually after hearing those screams for 3 days straight, it had eventually turned dead quiet.