Source 1b shows the ‘1914-15 Star’, ‘British War’ and ‘British Victory’ medals from the First World War. [CC BY-SA 3.0, Europeana 1914-1918 project via wikimedia commons].
This First World War Medal guide says that the medals were nick-named after animal characters in a comic strip in the Daily Mirror newspaper. The popular cartoons featured Pip the dog, Squeak the penguin and Wilfred the rabbit.
Look at Source 1b showing the coloured stripes linked to each medal.
- How many medals do you think Samson Jackson should have had in Source 1a?
- Why do you think there is only one medal in Source 1a?
- Can you find out about the 19th London Regiment in which Samson Jackson served?
- How and why do you think he served in the First World War? [clue: think about the name of his regiment.]