WW1 Stories required for classroom

[Viktoria]

In The Cloth Hall in Ypres, there is a newish museum dedicated to WW1
There always was one from its being rebuilt after WW1 .
There is a section about wounds and re -construction surgery,some dreadful
photographs and the marvellous after surgery photos,the dreadful thought was —— would those men be sent back to the front ?
It surely would not have been possible to do such surgery again.
Viktoria.

[Chris Doran]

A pair of postcards from a serving father to his children, which your pupils might empathise with: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195968963192

A George Walker is shown at the address in local directories of 1914 and 1922, so he appears to have survived.

Please Sir! How long do we have to hand in our homework? Finding time to put stuff together is proving a struggle.

[california dreamin]

Hi Matt

Perhaps this link and some of the resources may interest you.
http://explorers.mlfhs.org.uk/manchester_hill.htm

Kind regards,
CD

[Nanna52]

Chris, you reminded me of a friend whose grandfather was killed during WW1.  She managed to get copies of letters he sent home.  She said one contained some Francs with instructions of who in the village to go to the exchange the money so that his wife could buy some coal.  They had three children, the oldest born in 1913, when he was killed in 1917.

[Rena]

One of my late mother's older cousins once described to me the day she saw a German Zeppelin Air Ship in the sky over the River Humber.  This air ship was filled with Hydrogen and had flown up the east coast of England dropping bombs on pre determined targets.

https://www.mylearning.org/stories/zeppelin-raids-in-the-humber-during-ww1/802

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When visiting my maternal grandmother as a child I would always ask if I could look in her sideboard drawer.  This was where she kept her personal belongings, amongst which were the silk embroidered postcards sent to her during WWI by my grandfather.

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[Andrew Tarr]

One rather pathetic story from the start of the war :

My great-uncle Harry signed up with the light infantry in Liverpool aged 18.  After 6 weeks he was sent to complete training south of London, being put on guard duty at the mouth of Merstham tunnel on the Brighton line.  Someone in a passing train offered him a paper to read, which he went to pick up and was mown down by a train on the other track.  Died in the signal box and never got anywhere near the war.

[markw78]

Hello
Here is an interesting story of Peter Grant of Newport on Tay... you can find his story at

https://www.greatwardundee.com/2016/10/05/ww1-deserter-honoured-by-his-community/

and memorial image I made at

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/485544403567073020/

Wife's Great Uncle's memorial .... Battle of Loos...
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/485544403588809998/
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/485544403582094916/

First Black Watch just before they left for France
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/485544403551562293/
most of them would be killed in about a year or two...James Montague
and lastly the same regiment at the end of the war... please note how old
some of them look
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/485544403564588024/

Good luck with your project... you might also try and see if any pupils share names with those who served during the war as you will more than likely to find plenty of matches...

Regards
Mark W