Why do we need to remember one hundred years on Remembrance and the First World War This time of year is known as Remembrance Fortnight This is when we remember all those who have lost their life due to war ID: 557103
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Remembrance and the First World War Centenaries
Why do we need to remember one hundred years on?Slide2
Remembrance and the First World War
This
time of year is known as Remembrance Fortnight. This is when we remember all those who have lost their life due to war.
Today we are going to think about Remembrance and what it means.Slide3
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We’re
going to watch a piece of film from the Battle of the Somme, the worst battle of the First World War. The piece of film is 100 years old – there is no sound to it and it is not like modern footage.
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/battle-of-the-sommeSlide4
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The film you have just seen is a valuable piece of evidence from a time that was deeply affected by the war – the Great War as it was then known.
But does that war matter now; after all there have been many wars
in which British troops have fought since? Slide5
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It was the events and impact of the First World War (1914-18) that means that we wear a poppy today.
It
was a war so destructive and costly, it shattered the countries of Europe and the lives of millions of people around the world. It’s hard to think of something that would have that impact today. Slide6
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Before the First World War we didn’t have a Remembrance Day, although we’d had plenty of wars. But those wars did not directly affect civilians on the same scale as the First World War which was industrial-scale carnage.
Towns
and villages didn’t have a war memorial until the First World War and the poppy was just another wild flower.
Highlands
DundeeSlide7
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Nearly
one million men
from the UK, Empire and Commonwealth were killed in the First World War.More
than two million more were seriously injured.
Edinburgh
GlasgowSlide8
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Who in your family served?Slide9
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But
100 years on, does the First World War still
matter?Should we still think about it during Remembrance Fortnight, or should
we now just think about the new generation affected by war? Slide10
Remembrance and the First World War
The First World War provided us with our traditions of
Remembrance such as
the poppy, observing a Two Minute Silence at 11am on 11 November each year and Remembrance Sunday Services.Communities join together across the UK to take part in different Remembrance events and activities. Slide11
Remembrance and the First World War
T
he
last 100 years has seen many wars, but by remembering a whole generation that sacrificed so much, we are being reminded that part of the lesson of Remembrance is the hope for a peaceful future. Slide12
Moment of Reflection
When we wear the poppy and pause for our Two Minute Silence we are carrying a tradition that has lasted for nearly 100 years.
Those
traditions were introduced to help us to remember, to pause and think, and to learn the lessons from the past.