On Wednesday 22nd October, the PHHS History club went on a trip to ‘The Hive’, library and information hub in Worcester to conduct some exciting research into the soldiers who died in the First World War, who had attended Prince Henry’s.
We were taught how to use the different research tools available at The Hive, including the website “ancestry.com” which proved invaluable when researching information about the soldiers listed on our school war memorial. We were also able to access the “Soldiers Died in The Great War” register, and the list of soldiers who received medals, in order to find out more specific details about each of the 28 soldiers we were researching. The film rolls of marriage, birth and burial records were also available to us, and we were able to use the 1911 census to discover more about the families of these soldiers, and even find some who survived The Great War.
It was really valuable to discover more about these soldiers, and we look forward to sharing our research with visitors at the Evening of Remembrance on Monday 10th November in school.
To finish off the afternoon, we visited the Worcester Museum, which had a special exhibition on, charting the development of the Worcestershire regiment in wars through the ages. A special display honouring the fallen soldiers in this regiment from 2007 to the present day was a particularly poignant part of the exhibition, as it linked the First World War to the devastation that is still happening in wars worldwide today.
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