In Anzac Choices Board there are a variety of Journal Stories to read.
Please read the Underground Soldiers journal story.
At the bottom of page 2 in Anzac Choices Board there is further reading. Click on link to school journal stories and this will provide you with further journal stories to read or listen to.
Please read or listen to The Anzac Button and N.Z at War. These could be read with others.
These are some paragraphs from the Journal Story, "Grey Angels" which describe the life of a nurse in Egypt during the W.W.1. This may help you with your writing of either a diary or letter as a soldier in W.W.1.
Egypt: The New Zealand soldiers weren’t on the Western Front – they were fighting at Gallipoli. The nurses were sent to the four British-run hospitals in Egypt where the sick and injured men from Gallipoli were being taken. The women arrived in Alexandria in mid-June, and Edna was sent to No. 19 General Hospital. The work was punishing. It was very hot, and the nurses worked long hours. Some of the patients were sick with illnesses like dysentery and pneumonia. Others had serious bullet or shrapnel wounds or broken bones. There were no antibiotics. Sometimes a soldier’s arm or leg had to be amputated, and the nurses would help with the operation. For some patients, nothing could be done. The nurses would simply sit and hold their hands. Still, they were glad to be there. As one nurse, Cora Anderson, said in a letter to her brother, “We feel that we are doing what we came for.
Later in the year, the weather got very cold in Turkey. Soldiers coming from Gallipoli sometimes had terrible frostbite, and some of these men needed to have their feet amputated. Patients who recovered from their injuries or illnesses would be sent back to fight. Those who were very ill were sent home on a hospital ship.