Activity 2.14 TIMELINE Cut out and sort activity. * Can you match the primary evidence to the correct part ed of Sergeant Brookes’ diary? * Scissors Note: some of the events have no pictures. * Glue * — Inyour group (or with a partner) decide how you could illustrate your part of Brookes’ diary for a classroom display and then draw an example. "August 1914 7 I | | “An ulematum whieh Engandpresened to Germany |The batalon marched sgalrs eel. some five I cxpred st 11 O0pm and from tat time war was the order Unies nthe dvecdon ofthe fing line we could Retr |otthe dy the roar of the guns Acroplanes wore aeling | overhead | | | luge OOOO Ap aieimerisi ‘Ijoined the Queen's Westminster Rifles as a sigaller’ ‘A stretcher bearer was killed today by a shell whilst | | attending to a wounded comrade’ I -----4 TT Tess Eve 4 |ssy fiends and | received our uniforms? |, nc midday | crawled behind a hedge and goto some ! cottages where I had left my cycle and ave ia good I |lean up: | tocisher Bl ‘At 12.35am we were given orders to prepare to leave for _ ‘inthe afternoon | went out and had a chat with I France’ [our friends the enemy". Many of the Germans had | costumes taken from houses nearby. One fellow | Uhad a blouse, skirt, top hat and umbrella on. Various | | souvenirs were exchanged. I have also a number of German signatures and addresses and it was arranged \ | that we would write to one another at the end ofthe | | | | t otambar 1974 F posing Day 1914 ------4 “Ac 7.30am we landed in France. le was a beautiful day and “As we were leaving the trenches early on Boxing Day | very hot. There were many excited people waving at us’ | we insisted on the truce ending at midnight. And so | the truce ended, and in its place, death and bloodshed | | would once more reign supreme! a —---4 14 Lost Post Remembering the First World WarActivity 2.18 TIMELINE Cut out and sort activity. This is a differentiated version of the previous timeline. * Can you match the primary evidence to the correct part you will need of Sergeant Brookes’ diary? a * Scissors Note: some of the events have no pictures. + ciue * In your group (or with a partner) decide how you could illustrate your part of Brookes’ diary for a classroom display and then draw an example. Celieetieetiieetitaaiientientientienttasiatietiatietnaiedtienttedt deemed I I I I | 3 | I £ | zl I a z é 2 I x E | 5 | ! Z I | g I S I = id z 3 [8 \ =! # I 8 \ | z 2 | 2 = % 3 z 63 | > !' J 2 | 38 1 wee 1 gs 1 Fé 3 ae ate as., s'9 3 | 92 1 Jee | gee 1 gg 5 3 gow ats G] be 3 I x2 | sos | ese | ge 5 ae are 425 ae # Po So + SEE 4 St yO ST | gs | pi I | & 2 = | a | 2 I | zg oS g 3 | zo z | I 2 i z 2 3 2 | 2 | 5 I I g 4 < F 3g z & | soi 2 1 | 2 | 2 € aS & I 2s | 8 | « \ = | zZ I 2. | ye | a 1 92 1 2 Sx.. ye =| & Se , 4s8 | as | 3 \ € xg yo 2 a3 4 og ! Bs | 328 | 22 | z | $1 Ae gee 53 - 8 ou z | geP i g2¢ | = | £38 as Le Sa. Sth 1 8 _ 1 OPE a? wow postalheritage-orgublastpost u 5Activity 2.1 A & B IMAGES r 4 I I Il i | { I | I I October 1914 Brookes and his friends | ‘waiting to leave for France bo ee LL 4 ro SS ee 1 November 1914 Brookes spots aeroplanes overhead 16 Lost Post Remembering the First World WarActivity 2.1 A & B IMAGES CONTINUED www postalheritage.orgubllastpost 17