Conclusion
Now that you have completed the webquest you may want to think about the following questions:
Stripped to
the waist and sweated chest, Midday's reprieve much needed rest
We dug and hauled and lifted high, From trenches deep toward the sky
Non-fighting troops and yet we die
From a poem called 'Black Soldier's Lament'. We don't know the name of the poet.
What does this poem tell us about the contributions that people from the British Empire made in the First World War?
What does the poem tell us about the discrimination that they faced?
The photo is of a man from the Caribbean called Winston Churchill Millington who fought in the British West Indies regiment. Do some research to find out the man that he was named after.