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Bolt-action Rifles. The main weapon used by British soldiers in the trenches was the bolt-action rifle . 15 rounds could be fired in a minute and a person 1,400 metres away could be killed . The training and skill of the rifle operator himself was very important. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The main weapon used by British soldiers in the trenches was the bolt-action rifle. 15 rounds could be
fired in a minute and a person 1,400 metres away could be killed. The training and skill of the rifle
operator himself was very important.
Bolt-action Rifles
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Machine guns needed 4-6 men to work them and had to be on a flat surface. They had the fire-power of 100 guns. Early machine guns
would rapidly overheat and become inoperative without the aid of cooling mechanisms; they were consequently fired in short rather
than sustained bursts. .
Machine guns
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Large field guns (artillery) had a long range and could deliver devastating blows to the enemy but needed up to 12 men to work them. They
fired shells which exploded on impact
Artillery
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The French were the first to use Tear gas during the war in 1914. In 1915 he Germans were the first to use chlorine gas at the
battle of Ypres in 1915. Chlorine gas causes a burning sensation in the throat and chest pains. Death is painful – you suffocate!
The problem with chlorine gas is that the weather must be right.
Tear gas
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The infantryman in World War 1 was equipped with standard issue weapons at the start of the war but by the end of World War 1,
most infantrymen had become adept at using other weapons that had been developed as the war had progressed. Some infantrymen
were trained to use the relatively new machine gun but the majority had to make do with his rifle.
Infantry
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Tanks were used for the first time in the First World War. They were developed to cope with the conditions on the Western Front. The
first tank was called ‘Little Willie’ and needed a crew of 3. Its maximum speed was 3mph and it could not cross trenches. The more modern tank was not developed until just before the end of the war. It could carry 10 men, had a revolving turret and could reach 4mph.
Tanks
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Planes were also used for the first time. At first they were used to deliver bombs and for spying work but became fighter aircraft armed with machine guns,
bombs and some times canons. Fights between two planes in the sky became known as ‘dogfights’
Airplanes
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Torpedoes were used by submarines. The Germans used torpedoes to blow up ships carrying supplies from America to Britain. The Germans torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania on May 1st 1915 which sank with a loss of 1,195 lives. Americans were outraged and joined the war in 1917 on the side of the allies.
Torpedoes
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Grenades - either hand or rifle driven - were detonated in one of two ways. They were either detonated on impact (percussion) or via a timed fuse. Generally speaking, infantrymen preferred timed fuses (of whatever amount of time) to percussion devices, since
there remained the constant risk of accidentally jolting a grenade while in a trench and setting off an explosion.
Grenades
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When the war broke out in Western Europe in August 1914, both Britain and Germany had a cavalry force that each
numbered about 100,000 men. A cavalry charge was essentially from a bygone military era and machine guns, trench complexes
and barbed wire made such charges all but impossible.
Cavalry
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The Western Front during World War 1 stretched from the North Sea to the Swiss Frontier with France. Both sides dug themselves in ending any possible chance of a quick war; this caused a stalemate,
which was to last for most of the war. Many men died in the trenches of WW1, most of who died in battle, but many died from
disease and infections brought on by the unsanitary conditions
Trenches
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Barbed wire, also known as barb wire, is a type of fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand(s). It is used to construct inexpensive fences
and is used atop walls surrounding secured property. It is a major feature of the fortifications in trench warfare.
Barbed wire
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