Alice and Beth's Creative Work

A soldiers life in a trench......                                           This is our creative work for the topic- A
                                                                                           soldiers life in a trench.

If you cant read the sad tale bit then this is what is says-

A sad tale

Written by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young with the music by Jean Schwart, Hello Central!Give me no mans land was published in New York in 1918. The song recounts the story of a child who attempts to use the telephone in order to call his father in No Mans Land; except that his father has been killed in fighting on the Western Front.


Hello Central! Give Me No Mans Land

When the grey shadows creep
And the world is asleep
In the still of the night
Baby creeps down a flight.
First she looks all around
Without making a sound;
The baby toddles up to the telephone
And whispers in a baby tone:

"Hello, Central! Give me No Man's Land,
My Daddy's there my Mamma told me;
She tip toed of to bed
After my prayers where said;
Don't ring when you get the number,
Or you'll disturb Mamma's slumber
....................................................(etc..)

This is another piece of creative work we did. This is a drawing of no mans land this shows how isolated and hopeless this stretch of land was. It also shows from the sun that the sun and the light of the sun is the only thing that holds any hope in this vast stretch of muddy bleak land. As you can see from the drawing there is lots of mounds and turned up soil this is from the artillery and bombs as they would have destroyed anything in there paths. This turned up soil and great mounds would have made it particularly hard for both sides to cross no mans land as they would have to scramble over all of those mounds. The ground would also be very wet, therefore the soldiers would get stuck in the mud which would give them more chance of getting killed or in injured, the soldiers would also sometimes disappear into the mud and never be seen again as the mud would drag them down and suphicate them. Apart from theses set backs there would also be constant firing of artillery shrapnel and  rifles which would make your survival chance very bleak.