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Description

Discover about local people that are named on war memorials.
Bring the names to life and investigate about those individuals from the local area who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Using the internet or other local resources, see what can be found out about individuals who are listed on the war memorial. Also see what can be found about others who went to war but did return

Resources

Internet & computers or historical records
Paper etc

Instructions

Set the Scouts the challenge to find out as much as possible about individuals who went to war from the local area.
There are many good resources on-line to provide information on those who served, They often cover the fallen and those who returned.
Set them some questions (examples attached) to focus their investigations.
Come together to discuss what has been found.

Talk about what it might have been like in the trenches, the boredom, the cold, the wet, the hunger.
The quote from the Guys Hospital Gazette (1914): "Months of boredom punctuated by moments of absolute terror"

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• Creative - Internet
• Teamwork - Goal
• World - Discover
• World - International issue