Multifaith Trench by Aideen Seymour https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin Year 5 PRE WW1 week en-us 2018-09-25 14:25:20 UTC 2025-10-30 18:37:31 UTC hello@padlet.com Chattri Memorial ams16 https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/285543765 What did they do with the bodies of Sikh and Hindu soldiers who died? Comment below.


When a Sikh or Hindu soldier died at one of the Brighton hospitals, the body would be taken by other soldiers of their religion.
On a spot 500 feet above sea level on Holt Hill, traditional funeral prayers would be said by the soldiers and the body cremated on one of the open-air concrete cremation slabs. After the body was burnt, the ashes would be scattered in the nearby sea with religious prayers to complete the funeral ceremonies. 
]]> 2018-09-25 14:28:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/285543765 ams16 https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/285546394 INDIAN ARMY RATIONS
Are you surprised by any of the food items? Why?]]> 2018-09-25 14:31:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/285546394 From the Front: The Army chaplain at work, The Times, Thursday 8 October 1914 ams16 https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/285609131
I can go where I like; I go to see the wounded when being brought back from the front, and to see if I am needed when gunners have been shelled. If necessary, I am ready to go to the firing line, but I should only be in the way in the daytime. I see the sick who come in daily and are sent off by the ambulances to a hospital down country.


My first two Sundays I had no services. My third Sunday I had one in a farmyard lasting 20 minutes; and we had to march almost directly after. My fourth Sunday I crossed a river into the danger zone and held a service (without a surplice) for two companies, who were sleeping in camps of straw in a wood in inches of water, surrounded by pools of mud up to 1ft. deep! I then went on to another wood to some more troops, and began a service, but a deluge stopped it, and I had to cancel a third owing to rain. We generally fight or march on Sundays!






]]> 2018-09-25 15:45:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/285609131 179 British Army chaplains died in the First World War. Three of them were awarded Victoria Cross medals. ams16 https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/285610311 2018-09-25 15:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/285610311 Open air church service in the trenches, 1915 ams16 https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/285610641 How would you have felt at this service? ]]> 2018-09-25 15:47:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/285610641 Illustration of an English soldier, an Indian soldier, a Scottish soldier and a British pilot ams16 https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/285619671 Can you identify the religion of the Indian soldier? How do you know?]]> 2018-09-25 15:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/285619671 Multifaith Trench ams16 https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/285623803 (A) How many of the British Army's soldiers came from the colonies?
(B) What countries were once part of India?

The British Empire's colonies sent over two and a half million men to fight for Britain during the war. Out of these colonies, India sent the most soldiers. At that time, India included both Pakistan and Bangladesh. However, it was not just India that sent men to fight. Colonies as far away as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Rhodesia (which is now Zimbabwe) also sent thousands of soldiers to help Britain. That meant that Britain had soldiers fighting for it from five different continents: Europe, North America, Australasia, Asia and Africa.]]> 2018-09-25 16:03:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/285623803 ams16 https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/285631438 Can you search the internet to find out where The Gurkhas come from.]]> 2018-09-25 16:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/285631438 Victoria Cross winner- Lala ams16 https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/285632987 Was Lala a worthy winner of the Victoria Cross? Comment below.

Finding a British officer lying close to the enemy, he dragged him into a temporary shelter, which he himself had made, and in which he had already bandaged four wounded men. After bandaging his wounds he heard calls from the officer of his own regiment who was lying in the open severely wounded. The enemy were not more than one hundred yards distant, and it seemed certain death to go out in that direction, but Lala insisted on going out to his officer, and offered to crawl back with him on his back at once. When this was not allowed, he stripped off his own clothing to keep the wounded officer warmer, and stayed with him till just before dark, when he returned to the shelter. After dark he carried the first wounded officer back to the main trenches, and then, returning with a stretcher, carried back his officer. He set a magnificent example of courage.]]> 2018-09-25 16:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/285632987 Battle of the Somme WW1 hjm3 https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/287106307 1.Name 5 of the countries from which soldiers came to fight alongside the British in WW1.
2. How many of the 90 Rhodesian soldiers were alive at the end of the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916?]]> 2018-09-28 18:37:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/287106307 Activity ams16 https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/288071203 You are a British soldier in World War 1. Write a Christmas Card (which you will get from your teacher) telling your family back home about life in the trenches. ]]> 2018-10-02 12:35:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/288071203 Truce in the trenches. ams16 https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/288143773 Do you think they were right to call a truce on Christmas day? Why do you think they did this?]]> 2018-10-02 14:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ams16/hlarsxy3mdin/wish/288143773