Activity 1

Instructions

• Gandhi worked as a stretcher-bearer in this war;
  
  500 Australians died during this war.
• War was never actually declared so this was actually a “conflict”;
  
  2/3 of the armies were made up of volunteers.
• Journalists were banned – if found they could face death penalty;
  
  This war sparked invention of plastic surgery;
  
  Youngest soldier was 12 years old.
• Over 300,000 people died in this war;
  
  The last survivor of the war – a tortoise called Timothy – died in 2004.