Researching

Aaron drew a great diagram of the Gallipoli battle scene (1915). On the left side he drew the hills where the Turkish trenches were. The low ground is where the ANZACs were based. He is going to add some labels to his picture. 

The majority of today's Stepping Up session focused on learning how to understand information on soldier's records which we found on the Auckland War Memorial Museum's online cenotaph. We are each studying a person who was involved in WW1, for most of us it is a relative. Our teacher gave us some printouts from our person's military record. We were surprised at how many pages of information there is about our relative!

We had to look through the cenotaph record and find our person's full name, which of the armed forces he was in, his rank, DOB (date of birth) and DOD (date of death). Some of us found out what our person's occupation was prior to going to the War, and what their marital status was. 

Next week we will continue to learn more about our person.