Most of us are fairly well versed on many of the facts of Word War I with great battles such as the Somme and Battle of Passchendaele but there are some that are so quirky that they have failed entirely to make the schoolbooks. Here are some little known facts about World War I that might just come as a surprise to you. #wwi #worldwar1 #facts #HistoricalInsights #history #education #historyfacts
while digging trenches in the fields of
Flanders soldiers frequently Unearthed
Weaponry dating back to the Duke of
Wellington’s waterl campaign of
1815 additionally they discovered
muskets dating even further back in time
originating from the war of the Spanish
succession in the
1710s gas masks were not initially
provided to soldiers at the beginning of
the war before they became standard
equipment men resorted to stuffing rags
and socks soaked in urine into their mou
mouths in an attempt to avoid inhaling
the lethal fumes While others had to
settle for water and a small daily
allowance of rum French soldiers
received a daily ration of
0.25 L of wine by the war’s end this
amount had increase to
0.75 L per day