Fallen Heroes

Welcome to the History Department at Tideway Community School

This website shares the Great War research that has taken place by staff and students in the Department

Please feel free to download from and contribute material to the site (updated September 29th)

Jim Fanning / History Department / jfann16463@aol.com


	Lochnagar Crater on the Somme … our 1997 visit to this famous landmark The Chattri on the Downs near Brighton … our 1998 visit to this memorial to Indian troops THE WREFORD-BROWN FILE … a collection of original letters from two soldier brothers ………… PUPIL GUIDE TEACHER GUIDE THE COLLECTION Many thanks to Newhaven Fort for this material FAR FROM THE FRONT Personal research on the impact that the Great War had on one small Scottish village. West Calder lies 17 miles to the west of the city of Edinburgh GREAT WAR PROJECT WINNER … a website designed by pupils that won a commendation in the 1998 NEMA/BBC Awards Our 1999 PUPIL VISIT TO THE BATTLEFIELDS OF BELGIUM AND FRANCE CLICK HERE to see the research carried out by Brian Dickinson into his local war memorials CLICK HERE to find out about letters from another Wreford-Brown brother that have just been discovered CLICK HERE for the latest Wreford-Brown research


	Great War Churches on-line ! Visit www.greatwarchurches.com. to find out more about our latest research project


	A School at War Meeching Boy's School 1914-1919. Extracts from the school log book


	The Burville Collection A number of years ago Mrs Burville bought a collection of black and white negatives. They turned out to be photographs taken by a soldier who had fought at Galipoli and on the Somme in the First World War Mr Dickinson has set himself the task of researching the life of this soldier and trying to discover exactly who he was. Over the next few months Mr Dickinson will tell you about his research on these pages CLICK HERE to view Part1 of the collection CLICK HERE to view Part2 of the collection Great War Postcards CLICK HERE to view the postcard collection loaned by Mrs Halley Over 90 Die in South Coast Air Raid CLICK HERE to find out more about this story

Photographic Archive

The links below will take you to an archive of photographs that can be used for presentations and DTP. The archive covers the most 'popular' school destinations in France and Belgium

Notre Dame de Lorette
The French National War Memorial
Serre
Battleground of the Pals Battalions
Albert
The Museum of the Shelters
Pozieres
Ideal walking for small school groups and 'Le Tommy' as well
Thiepval and the Ulster Tower
The Memorial to the Missing
The Sunken Road
Beaumont Hamel
Newfoundland Memorial Park
The Canadians at War
Vimy Ridge
The Canadians at War


	Charles Stanley Amy At a recent parent's evening Mrs Crosse brought in a collection of material relating to Private Charles Stanley Amy of the Royal Sussex Regiment Private Amy died on 24th September 1917 and his parents lived in Newfield Road, Newhaven CLICK HERE to find out more The Lusitania Medal One of these original medals was recently brought into school CLICK HERE to find out more about the medal

Additions

Richard Umney of Year 10 brought in a notebook that had been kept by his great-grandfather in 1915. It is his record of a munitions course that he attended in Troon.
Daniel of Year 10 recorded in photographs our most
recent visit to Belgium and France.
On 11th November I took part in a guided Great War walk around Lewes and visited the Cenotaph on the 12th.


	SCHOOL VISITS : Shot at Dawn, the condemned cells in Poperinghe; the Great War graves in Seaford Cemetery; Essex Farm Cemetery, where John McRae composed 'In Flander's Fields' and where one of the youngest casualties of the war lies buried; Langemark German Military Cemetery; Hill 62 Belgium; the Alnwick town war memorial; Delville Wood on the Somme; the Menin Gate in Ypres; Sanctuary Wood in Belgium; the In Flanders Fields Museum Ypres; visiting a Great War cemetery, Guillemont Road Cemetery on the Somme (burial place of Raymond Asquith); the tank memorial at Pozieres; the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing; Tyne Cott Military Cemetery in Belgium, the largest British military cemetery in the world; the Demarcation Stones along the Western Front; the RE Grave near Ypres; Newhaven Flea Market find; Tournai Military Cemetery; the Mourning Parents at Vladslo; Hooge Crater Museum; Brian Dickinson at Canada Farm Additions CLICK HERE to follow some of the Great War lessons that have been taught to Year 10 GCSE Modern World History students Online worksheets for the Musee des Abris in Albert Shot at Dawn - a visit to Suzanne Military Cemetery No.3 In September 2001 Year 10 students will complete their Great War GCSE coursework online Click here for a preview of the Year 10 GCSE coursework site Students will also visit the Newhaven Fort Great War exhibition Examples of the work they will be invovled in at the Fort can be found below Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Click here to read Stuart Goddard's essay on The Lost Generation Tom from Year 10 took part in the recent (2001) visit to France and Belgium and is now designing a presentation about the places we toured (Click here for more). Alex from Year 11 discovered the name of a relative on the Memorial to the Missing at Thiepval (Click here). An Interview with Two Soldiers from the Great War has also been added to the BT FutureTalk Schools Award project. Click here to visit the site and ask the soldier brothers about life on the Western Front in the Great War. During our last school visit to Belgium and France pupils converted some of the images taken into online jigsaw puzzles ! Click here to download Jigsaw 1, Jigsaw 2, Jigsaw 3, Jigsaw 4 (Files should take a maximum of 2 minutes each to download) CLICK HERE to read the WEBWATCH article from the Western Front Association 'Stand To' magazine that describes using the Internet to research the ways in which Great War history is taught in schools (also available as a PDF file). If you bookmark no other website then bookmark The Old Front Line by Paul Reed - visit it now and you will discover what I mean ! Village churches are a tremendous source of information and are interesting places for pupils to carry out field-study research. In May 2002 I visited a number of local churches to examine their Great War memorials. The reuslts can be found below. Rottingdean Wivelsfield Scaynes Hill Barcombe LATEST (Updated September 29th 2002) Danielle from Year 9 recently brought in some medals relating to her great grandfather. Click here to see the football medal he was awarded in France in 1918. Our next residential visit to Belgium and France will be in July 2003. www.thetrench.co.uk For one week in July over 70 pupils took part in the Trench Project. Updates During this term I hope to add more material relating to the Wreford-Brown collection and also a copy of a letter from her great-grandfather (1917) discovered by a member of the teaching staff. It's possible to carry out some good research in your local cemetery and this is an example of work I did over the summer holidays on the Great War memorials in West Calder (near Edinburgh) cemetery. Such research can easily be carried out by pupils and would make a good homework/project topic. A Great War interest group for pupils and parents is being launched this term in school. A website to help pupils research Great War casualties is now being developed. Please visit it and add your thoughts and advice on its design.