When Heroes Die

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During the documentary you should try to find the answer to 3 main questions. The answers are to be found throughout the entire documentary and not just in one sequence. 1. Why does Sue Smart use the phrase my boys in the beginning of this documentary? she has studied their lives so much she sees them as her own kids or family 2. What was Greshams school headmaster George Hawsons reaction to all the events during WWI? he couldn't even sleep 3. During the programme the number of boys killed is mentioned 3 times? a. How many of the cricket team died? 5 b. How many of the Golden Boys died? 11 c. How many had died when the guns fell silent? 100 Clip 1 No community in the country was left untouched by the horrors of the First World War. Few paid a higher price than a small group of Norfolk schoolboys called the Golden Lads. To their headmaster they were heroes. This is the story of those boys and how their courage has brought comfort in the midst of a modern tragedy. It is late summer at Gresham School at Holt in North Norfolk. Founded in the 16th century the school moved here in 1903. It became Britains newest and one of its most dynamic public schools. But for the predecessors of these boys the game ahead would be brutally hard. July 1914, the day of the annual cricket match between Greshams and the Old Boys. Two weeks later war was declared. Five years later . in the war to end all wars. Clip 2 Listen for the missing words, all of which are adjectives or adverbs. I knew the MONUMENTAL loss of a member of your own household, you know, the ENORMOUS gap that that caused. I was trying to understand through their adversity my own adversity. Having lost a child myself in her teens, I OBVISIOUSLY had a STRONG sense of young lives cut short and I think, always from the beginning, there was that sense that ... that I was trying to make sense of the senseless in my own life. I wanted to pay tribute to lives that sometimes are forgotten because people are not dying in the fullness of their years. When somebody dies having had a life of achievement and they leave a family and they leave grandchildren and so on, its very easy to write about their lives but its less easy to make sense of lives that are cut SHORT. I cant imagine what it was like going from the Gresham school in 1916 or 1915. Here we were, in the BEAUTIFUL Norfolk country side, in a TINYschool with fewer than 250 boys and then they go to this maelstrom of the war. I absolutely cant imagine what it must have been like. Clip 3 In this and next section you get to know Mark Hill and Cuthbert Hill. Listen for the information below and complete the grid. Just tick the right name in questions 4 + 5. Mark Hill Cuthbert Hill 1. What part of the army did Army navy they join up with? 2. When were they killed? 14 july 31 may Give the exact date. 3. What were their nicknames? marco 4. Who was killed first? Second first

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Who was the elder brother? What other information did you hear?

The elder brother Was killed 6 weeks after his brother

The younger brother Died at 18 years old

Clip 4 In this part Gresham School is presented in more detail. Try to complete the schools Identity Kit in 1915. Gresham School 1915 Established 1915 Location Emphasis on? History The first group of teachers was a small group, they were only 5, nicknamed The first five. One member of staff got killed in WWI; he was the memorial teacher at Greshams. An other important person who was vital to the school when it comes to remembering the school boys killed in WWI was Win Wilson, he made the ... His son can still remember his father working on it. Clip 5 Fill in the missing words in the text below. Choose from one of the following. You dont need all the words. last - love letters - soldier - an only - headmaster - Navy - the eldest - air force pilot - history teacher - first - mom - dad - grandfather - cousin - application letters checkbooks Raymond Berridge was another of many Gresham boys killed in WWI. He served in the AIRFORCE as a PILOT and was the HEADMASTER FIRST s pet. He crashed on his FIRST flight. As he was ONLY son his DAD has kept everything he left, ranging from notes to CHECK BOOKS Why is Sue Martin outraged about the Royal telegram sent to Berridges parents after his death? Clip 6 1. Why is David Boxall visiting the school? Sue had tracked him down and asked him to come 2. How long has it been since his last visit? Half a century 3. What is his relationship to the Mark and Cuthbert Hill? His father was cuthbert's closest friend Clip 7 1. In this clip the title of the documentary is explained. Whose words are they? George Housson 2. Which 2 places does Sue Smart visit? The graves of the boys and the forest where mark hill was killed 3. How does she feel in the forest? Give at least 5 different adjectives. Unhappy, synister, bruthing, uneasy, unpeaceful Clip 8 What information do you get on the Thiepval War Memorial? 12000 graves