The great war......TRENCH HELP?

Question

Right, i know about the front line and stuff, but what would you say was the calmest of all parts of the trenches
The part where less attacks and stuff?
ANY ONE??

Answer 1

For the average soldier in the trenches, there was no place that could be called calm. Even when there was a lull in the fighting, there was always the fear of death and the extreme stench of close confinement with hundreds of other soldiers. Trenches were formed not in straight lines, but with zig zags, some curves, and unsymetrical lines so that there was the ability for crossing fields of fires for better defense, so some sections of the trenchlines were farther forward then others. All of these trenches were generally backed by dugout sections behind , but connected to the lines, called bombproofs. These bombproofs were heavily reinforced with dirt, timbers, or whatever heavy, think material that could be procured, and this is where the men lived, ate, and slept when off duty or when direct action was not occuring. These bombproofs would be perhaps as close to a calm part of the trench as they could hope for.

Answer 2

some parts of the landscape weren't really soothed for big attacks so there where the more calmer parts of the front line ( like the vogezen there in 1917 did the new Americans troops get there first experiences in trench warfare ) also the end of the line near the Swiss border was a possibility but there was always the danger of a trench raid don by the enemy

Answer 3

There was no calm spot in the trenches. Trenches were the front lines, a very dangerous place to be. That's why they built trenches, to get underground to avoid all the bullets and shrapnel flying over head. Even if you were in the trench it was not safe. Bombs or mortars could land inside the trench and kill everyone close by.
The trenches breed disease and rats, even when there was no fighting the trenches were a dangerous place.
Many men were buried alive when the dugouts they built into the trenches (they thought they would be safe from bombs)collapsed after taking a direct hit.

Answer 4

It's important to remember that, except for major attacks by either side, British and later American troops spent only about a third of their duty time in the front line trenches.

Troops were rotated, rarely spending more than three days at once on front-line duty. So although on-call, re-training, or doing hard work on re-supply, as well as having genuine R&R over these periods, these were all in locations far calmer and more peaceful (relatively) than the front line.

What made for a "cushy" war is sometimes difficult to grasp.
Some soldiers in mining companies found themselves with better pay, food and conditions (and often considered safer conditions!) than their civilian employment.

Some parts of the front scarcely moved from 1915 to 1918 but that didn't make them especially safe. Artillery was the biggest killer in WW1 and, in proportion to the size of the armies deployed, the casualty rate for generals was higher in WW1 than WW2, against the myth that all generals were tucked away safely in luxurious chateau headquarters.
Officers in general had a higher rate of losses than enlisted men.

Answer 5

I understand that the calmest point of time was the first Christmas when the men left their trenches and went to wish their enemy Happy Christmas.