SIDNEY LEWIS BY RUEN BECERRA JORDI CAJIGA BENJAMIN RUIZ AND VICTOR GOMEZ

Who was Sidney Lewis

Sidney Lewis was the youngest British soldier in (“World War I” also known as the “Great War”) He was twelve years old when he fought at the battle of Somme in 1916. In world war I, a numbe of young boys joined up to serve as soldiers before they were eighteen, the legal age to serve in the army. It was reported that the yougest British soldier was twelve year old, sent home from France in 1917 with other underage boys from various regiments.

What did he do

he was  youngest authenticated British soldier in World War I was the twelve-year-old Sidney Lewis who fought at the Battle of the Somme in 1916

When did he do

Sidney Lewis enlisted in August 1915, and was fighting in the trenches of the Western Front by the following June.

Where did he do

Sidney Lewis escaped from his home in South London leaving his mother alone.

Why did he do

Sidney Lewis escaped from his home because he wanted to enlist in the army for going to the Great War, he was discovered in a trench and sent back to his home

How did he do

He would go on to fight in the Battle of the Somme with the 106th Machine Gun Corps.

Compare and contrast with us

If we were in Lewis situation we wouldn't go to war because we would know that weapons kill people and maby these guns would kill us

What did he did

he left his home because he wanted to go to war until, until they discover he was a twelve year old kid in the battle of the somme

Conclusion

our conclusion is that he was a great and brave man with lots of gutsfor joining the Great War and that he wanted to fight because in that time people didn't knew that the war would be so tragic, bloody, deadly and exhausting