DISPLAY Resource G: Slide 1, the image of the Mohan Singh Trophy.

GIVE OUT copies of the same image from Resource H7 to pairs of pupils and give a limited amount of time for them to generate questions from the following question stems:

Why? Where? When? Who? What? How?

HOLD a discussion and select and write up a range of questions from pairs.

NEXT give pairs time to generate possible answers to the questions.

LASTLY, reveal Resource G: Slide 2 giving details about the trophy.

ASK pairs to discuss what the trophy tells us about what words British officers might have actually used to describe the Sikh soldiers they commanded.

WRITE UP the suggested words for future reference. Explain that these Sikh soldiers came from India and were the same kind of soldier that pupils learned about in Lesson 1.

NEXT display a map of Europe in 1914, such as from this link…

EXPLAIN (or recap if pupils have already studied the First World War in some form, for example, through Remembrance as a topic) how Europe was divided between the Allies of Great Britain, France and Russia on one side and Germany and Austria-Hungary on the other.

THEN display the map of the Western Front on Resource G: Slide 3 explaining how British and French soldiers on one side and German soldiers on the other dug trenches facing each other (display the photograph of the British trench on Resource G: Slide 4). Refer to the well-known details of how trenches were sometimes muddy and bitterly cold in winter.

AFTERWARDS display Resource G: Slide 5 showing the photograph of a French woman giving flowers to an Indian Sikh soldier in Paris, France, on Bastille Day in 1916. They had arrived in France in the autumn of 1914 to fight for the British on the Western Front.

DISCUSS with pupils what this source might show us about French attitudes towards Sikh soldiers.