Anzac Notes

Urmi's reading group had some choices of what we could do for a while.

The choices were Anzac / world war 1 information, fitness information, solar system,

lochness monster or a literacy circle. I chose the Anzac / world war 1. I have done lots of

notes and I've tried to make it into my own words.

The Maori Pioneer Battalion.

The youngest soldier was 15 years old

Ápirana Ngata hoped that the Maori people would become equal with the pakeha if they fought alongside pakeha

July 1915 the soldiers were sent to Gallipoli 

The British weren’t comfortable with the Maori fighting too

Eventually Maori were commanded to attack the Turkish trenches

Five hundred sailed to Egypt to Malta and they guarded that island for some weeks

17 Maori died, 89 were injured

134 came back alive 

‘Native troops’ weren’t allowed to accompany Germany so they got sent back home

The Maori got a huge party all over the country and knew they had done their part.

In the war 366 Maori were killed and more than 700 were hurt

After war still Europeans never saw eye to eye with Maori

Anzac Day.

Hundreds and hundreds lost their lives in the Gallipoli campaign

2779 New Zealanders were dead, 1 in 6 served in Gallipoli

ANZAC stands for Australian New Zealand Army Corps

Prayers, hymns and a dedication is in a ceremony as well as a minutes silence

25th of April is Anzac Day

Chunuk Bair.

The Gallipoli fighting went on for nine horrible months

Kemal whipped his soldiers to signal they should be firing and it’s said that later on he was hit in the chest by a shrapnel

Kemal had a watch in his pocket near his chest and the watch shattered but saved his life 

Memorials in New Zealand and Turkey for 120,000 people died in Gallipoli

      School Journal / First World War Mascots… Animals at war

In the first world war dogs were sent to look for injured soldiers, cats caught rats in some trenches, horses pulled wagons with guns and more inside, pigeons delivered messages, donkeys pulled water and other things. 

Mascots cheered up the soldiers and made sure they carried on

Some mascots couldn’t come home so they had to stay at war and some mascots got given to a zoo

The soldiers hoped Mascots would give them luck and keep them safe.

   

  Grey Angels.

Injured soldiers got sent to the nurses and some injuries were worse than others, if the men recovered well enough then they were sent back to war to fight again, others weren’t so lucky if they weren’t well enough then they got sent back home

Up to 500 people could go at a time on the ship

White ships also known as hospital ships ended up taking 47,000 soldiers in the end

Florence de Lisle was a nurse who was looking after the soldiers said that her biggest scare was when she was making a soldier's bed and realized he had no legs.

Thousands of men were in one hospital 

Some soldiers got blisters and swollen in their eyes and throats others got asthma 

Their breathing was horrible one nurse had described

Some men got shell shock and some couldn’t stop trembling, other soldiers got gassed

Extra information about World War 2

50 to 56 million people died in WW2

Literally the entire world was involved in war even just a tiny bit