Girl Guides Involvement in WW1
Girl Guides played a vital role in the signing of this treaty which ended WW1
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Girls Guides sent messages with flags, using this method of signalling.
What is semaphore?
What does the date November 11th symbolize?
What is the final day of battle of WW1?
This soldier from Guelph wrote the poem "In Flander's Field"
Who is John McCrae?
This service badge was created in 1914 to encourage members of the organization to get involved with the war effort
What was the War Service Badge?
The telegraphist badge, created during WW2, required girls to construct their own wireless receiver and send messages in this coded language
What is Morse Code?
It is customary to stop what you are doing and bow your head on November 11th at 11:00am for this long
What is two minutes?
There are this many major war monuments in Cambridge
What is 3?
Guides between the ages of _ and __ , who were "of good standing, quick, cheerful, and willing" were hired as spies by the MI5.
What is 14 and 16?
Throughout the war, Girl Guides raised funds for two of these aircrafts to be bought.
What are air ambulances?
Poppies of this colour are worn to honour animals who were victims of war
What are purple poppies?
There are over this many poppy streets, streets named after war veterans, in Cambridge
What is 130?
A service badge was awarded for completing this many hours of service in hospitals, war offices, public services and making 15 items of clothing for servicemen.
What is 100 hours?
The two-year National War Service Project, called “The Guide Overseas Gift Project”, was used to distribute these to children who had been victims of bombings
What are clothes?
This was the former name of Remembrance Day, retired in 1931
What is Armistice Day?
This is the name of the reserve unit with companies in Cambridge and Kitchener
What is the Royal Highland Fusiliers (of Canada)?