Red, White & Blue World War One Centenary Plymstock School History Department

World War One changed our country and the world. Shots fired in Sarejevo, Bosnia, echoed around the world It happened one hundred years ago and yet its echoes can still be heard both globally and locally

Europe no longer looks like this

War Memorials

This Is How Many British Soldiers Died During World War I 888,246888,246 British and Empire soldiers lost their liveslives CWGC – War Dead RegistryWar Dead Registry

An entire generation was lost, buried in ‘some corner of a foreign field’ “The Soldier,” by Rupert Brooke ( ) If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England’s, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the Eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given, Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

Buried 15 feet from each other – the first and last British soldiers to die in WW1

The story of the Devonshire RegimentThe story of the Devonshire Regiment – 8:11

Harry Patch Last Post – Max Arthur

The Menin Gate

The Last Post Following the Menin Gate Memorial opening in 1927, the citizens of Ypres wanted to express their gratitude towards those who had given their lives for Belgium's freedom. As such, every evening at 20:00, buglers from the local fire brigade close the road which passes under the memorial and sound the "Last Post". Except for the occupation by the Germans in World War II when the daily ceremony was conducted at Brookwood Military Cemetery, in Surrey, England, this ceremony has been carried on uninterrupted since 2 July [16] On the evening that Polish forces liberated Ypres in the Second World War, the ceremony was resumed at the Menin Gate despite the fact that heavy fighting was still taking place in other parts of the town.buglersfire brigadeLast Post GermansWorld War IIBrookwood Military CemeterySurrey [16]Polish