Title: When did World War 1 start, how many people died and what was life like for the soldiers in the trenches?
Headings: When did World War 1 start, how many people died and what was life like for the soldiers in the trenches?
When did World War 1 start, how many people died and what was life like for the soldiers in the trenches?
IT was a war unprecedented in the destruction and deaths caused, which led to the fall of four imperial dynasties.
When did World War One start?
When did World War One end?
How many people died in World War One?
What was life like in the trenches?
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Content: The Battle of the Somme, on July 1, 1916, saw 57,470 personnel from the British Army die in a single day. The greatest number of casualties came from artillery. Poison gas and small arms followed on as the next biggest killers. It has been estimated the number of civilian deaths during the war - largely caused by starvation, exposure, disease, military encounters and massacres - reached 13,000,000. 3
Some 8,500,000 died in the conflict, as a result of wounds and/or disease Credit: Getty - Contributor
What was life like in the trenches? Much of the war was fought by soldiers living in trenches along the Western Front. They were long, narrow ditches dug into the ground where soldiers lived all day and night. German trenches lined one side and the Allied trenches lined the other - the middle was No Man's Land. Soldiers had to cross the hazardous space if they wanted to attack.