How they were made
The trenches were man made and dug out by the soldiers, they were made a metre deep by two metres wide the depth of the trenches were really important because they needed to hide behind it there were sand bags piled on the side where the enemy was attacking these were filled from the soil that was dug out from the trenches they were piled in rows up to six metres thick so that they were bullet proof this was called a parapet (Wilkinson, 2011). In some places where the trenches were dug the wether conditions were different so in some places the dirt was dry and hard which made it really hard to dig however at Ypres the dirt was really soft and boggy so the trenches weren’t really dug In these areas and instead they used sand bags and wood to help build up the walls which were called breastworks. The floors of the trenches were made using wooden duckboards (Chris Baker 1996-2010)