CHAPTER 2 COOEE – WON’T YOU COME? AUSTRALIA AND
WORLD WAR I
2.11 ‘We will remember them’ – commemoration of World War I
Name:
ACTIVITIES
Check your understanding
Create a mind map to show the different ways in which Australia commemorates World War
I.
Using sources
What do sources 2.11.1 to 2.11.8 reveal about the values and attitudes underpinning the
commemoration of Australia’s involvement in World War I?
Researching and communicating
1.
Go to www.jaconline.com.au/retroactive/retroactive2 and click on the Australian War
Memorial weblink. Take a virtual site tour to find out:
(a) the link between the Dawn Service and the army tradition of ‘stand to’
(b)
who originally attended the Dawn Service and what happened there
(c)
who attends this service nowadays and what kinds of activities it incorporates
(d)
how the War Memorial itself has contributed to Australia’s commemoration of
World War I.
2.
For information about some of the regulations protecting the use of the word ‘Anzac’, go
to www.jaconline.com.au/retroactive/retroactive2 and click on the Department of
Veterans’ Affairs weblink.
3.
Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian who served as a medical officer during World War I,
portrayed the Flanders poppy as a flower of remembrance in his 1915 poem ‘In Flanders’
Fields’. Use the Internet to find a copy of the words of his poem and do further research
to also find some of the verses that others have written in reply to it.
4.
Create a poster to indicate the main features of each of the following:
(a) The Australian Corps Memorial Park at Le Hamel, France
(b)
The Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, France
(c)
The Australian War Memorial, London.
Retroactive 2 2E Activities
© Maureen Anderson, Anne Low, Jeffrey Conroy, Ian Keese 2005
1
RETROACTIVE 2 2E
5.
Investigate how filmmakers, artists and sculptors have sought to commemorate
Australia’s involvement in World War I. Create a poster to communicate your findings to
other people. (You might be particularly interested in the controversy surrounding the
work that sculptor Rainer Hoff created for the War Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney.)
6.
Use biographical dictionaries, encyclopedias and the Internet to investigate C. E. W.
Bean’s work in commemorating Australians’ role in World War I. Use the ‘W’ questions
to guide your research and summarise your findings in a paragraph of 10 to 15 lines.
Worksheets
2.7
The search for Sergeant Corbett
Notes:
Retroactive 2 2E Activities
© Maureen Anderson, Anne Low, Jeffrey Conroy, Ian Keese 2005
2