Year 9
What do the stories of the 'often forgotten armies' reveal about the Western Front?
Year 9
What do the stories of the 'often forgotten armies' reveal about the Western Front?
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- In this lesson, we will pull everything wehave learnt about the 'often forgotten armies' together and then learn how to answer our enquiry question: what do the stories of the 'often forgotten armies' reveal about the Western Front?
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5 Questions
Q1.
Where was Mike Mountain Horse from?
Algeria
America
India
Q2.
Why did Mike Mountain Horse sign up to fight?
He wanted to look good in front of his friends
He was forced to my a Christian missionary
To get good wages
Q3.
Which battles did Mike Mountain Horse take part in?
Cambrai and Somme
Somme and Verdun
Verdun and Passchendaele
Q4.
Tanks were first used successfully in a massed attack at the Battle of Cambrai. What could this reveal about the Western Front?
Soldiers were no longer important
Soldiers were not always supported or cared for properly
The British were in trouble in 1917
Q5.
George Strangling Wolf buried a piece of his flesh in the mud of northern France. What could this reveal about the Western Front?
George Strangling Wolf was stupid.
Soldiers were not always supported or cared for properly
The Western Front could be a horrible place to be.
5 Questions
Q1.
When was the First World War?
1900-1914
1918-1939
1939-1945
Q2.
Name the 4 places our ‘often forgotten armies’ came from
Britain, France, Australia, Canada
Indochina, Algeria, Canada and China
Russia, France, Germany, Belgium
Q3.
Whose story reveals the importance of technology on the Western Front?
All of the stories reveal the importance of technology
Ganga Singh and Algerian soldiers
Ganga Singh, Mike Mountain Horse and Chinese Labour Corps
Q4.
Whose story reveals the psychological impact of war?
Algerian soldiers at Ypres
Chinese Labour Corps
Mike Mountain Horse
Q5.
What do all of our often forgotten armies stories reveal about the Western Front?
that the people on the Western Front were just British, French and German soldiers
that the Western Front was a theatre of war
that war is pointless