WW1 Stories required for classroom

[Viktoria]

Another at Delville Wood ,theSouthern end of the main activity of the first day of The Battle of The Somme.
A 16 year old.
I have a photo.
I am open to correction ,but were there still drummer boys etc ?
Viktoria.

[jim1]

I am open to correction ,but were there still drummer boys etc

They lied about their age.
Minimum age was 18.

[ALAMO2008]

Something that may resonate with your students is that it is
estimated that over 50,000 underage boys volunteered during the war.
A few years ago I took this picture at Essex Farm Cemetery of
Valentine Strudwick of the 8th. Rifle Brigade.
He died age 15.

He was Born March Quarter 1900 Mother Louisa nee Fuller
He was awarded 1914/15 Star because he went over 1915 age 14 probably enlisted 1914 aged 14

[Viktoria]

Ah, yes, but of course if killed in battle  they would be buried and their  gravestones ( crosses at first)  would give the age on their dog tags.
However they might be after battle corrections ,their dog tags would have the false ages I should think.
Cemeteries were rationalised after the war.
Viktoria.

[ALAMO2008]

I am open to correction ,but were there still drummer boys etc

They lied about their age.
Minimum age was 18.

Article from Ottawa Newspaper about Joe enlisting.

[brigidmac]

My grandfather was 17 his brother 15

I have some photos of him.posing with a german helmet back in Liverpool

[GrahamSimons]

The family story that gets me every Remembrance Day tells of one young British officer killed near Ypres and his German brother-in-law, also a young officer,  killed on the other side of the lines. Their deaths were a few weeks apart. I can give some detail if you would like to use this example.

The wedding (see photo) was on 3rd July 1914.
War broke out less than a month later.

[Viktoria]

That looks like the German Soldier?
The helmet, but the white(?) tassel- horsehair plume? partly obscures the headwear.


What a great pity those young men were lost, just two stories in the millions of others.
I would love to see a photograph of the other couple.

Thanks.
Viktoria.

[GrahamSimons]

That looks like the German Soldier?
The helmet, but the white(?) tassel- horsehair plume? partly obscures the headwear.


What a great pity those young men were lost, just two stories in the millions if others.
I would love to see a photograph of the other couple.

Thanks.
Viktoria.

Yes, that's the wedding in Folkestone. Of course the bride lost her British nationality that day and became a German. She spent the war in Berlin.