History River

Hi Tully.
Tomorrow is 1st July.  Exactly 100 years ago a huge battle began in France called the Battle of the Somme.  The Somme River is in France.  It was part of a war called World War One, although sometimes called "The Great War", that lasted for fours years.
You have some distant relatives who were soldiers in that war and some of them fought in the Battle of the Somme.
Your task (should you decide to accept it) is to find the Somme River on a map and to ask your Mum and Dad why Australian soldiers went all the way to the other side of the world to fight in a war.
In Canberra there is a building called The Australian War Memorial.  It was built after WW1. Perhaps you can go there sometime.
Bye for now.
Love from Pop