Remembrance day World War I scene

Since tomorrow is November 2nd, All Souls Day, we are remembering our heroes of the past who died.

We recently read a book called Innocent Heroes by Sigmund Brouwer, and we learned a lot about the First World War from reading it. We also learned about the role that some animals played in helping soldiers in the war.

The characters are Canadian soldiers in a platoon called the Storming Normans. The main characters are Jake York, Thomas Northstar, Charlie, lieutenant Norman, Lance, and all the animals that help them. 

It takes place in Courcelette, Vimy Ridge, France, and George Gordon Reserve, Saskatchewan, Canada. 

In the book it shows how living in a trench is hard; there are lots of rats that steal the soldier's food and bite them and suck their blood when they sleep. Shells are always exploding everywhere.  They go on many missions and raid a German trench. The adventures the animals go on through their missions are crazy, and they couldn't have done the missions without all the training.

In the end, they win the war and survive.   

I really liked the book because it told me how the soldiers felt in the war and it inspired me to make the trench scene out of Lego.  My favourite chapters were about Boomer the cat (because I like cats), Louise the pack horse (because this chapter takes place after the war ended), and the Epilogue (where the veterans lived happily after the war).  ------E1

The book helped me to understand how animals really helped in war.  The chapter I liked the best was about Boomer.  Boomer was a cat that helped kill rats in the trenches, so that the soldiers didn't get bitten in their sleep, and then they could rest enough to work in the morning.  ----E2

There's a soldier behind the sandbags

The battlefield

There's a wounded soldier who got shot down on the ground.

This is supposed to be a carrier pigeon taking a message to the soldiers.

This machine turret soldier has fallen 

This is the overview of the trench.

Here is a soldier with a large gun.

This is a machine gun turret in the trench.

There is a trail of rat urine near the bread.  Soldiers stored their food above the trenches. 

This is Boomer the cat, he eats rats.  There were many cats in the First World War to patrol for rats.

There is a boat that got hit by a shell and is in pieces.

These are the beds inside the trench; it was very uncomfortable to sleep in them.

Here is a medic and a radio man. 

This is a soldier reading a letter from home.

There is another soldier running whose clothing caught fire.

Soldiers threw dynamite to blow things up.  The minifig is in a shell crater doing that. 

Dawn Treader

This is the Dawn Treader from one of the books in the Chronicles Of Narnia series by C.S Lewis, called Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  (At this point, I've only read the book, and hope to watch the movie soon. my creations are based on my interpretation of what is described in the book.)

The lego Dawn Treader has four oars; two on each side.

These are the characters on the deck. Prince Caspian has a sword, Edmund is smiling beside him. Eustace is behind Caspian. Drinian is steering the ship. Lucy is near him.

This is the side, you can see Eustace holding Reepicheep in his hand.

This is the back of the Dawn Treader. (Look at the rudder in the back to help guide the ship...)

This is the inside of the boat.

The rowers are in the middle.

This is the head at the front of the Dawn Treader.

This is a close up of the rudder at the back.

Narnia

I just finished reading the whole Narnia series which inspired me to make these Narnia characters  Here are my lego Narnia characters.

I will tell you their names in order in this picture.
Mr. Tumnus, Jadis the White Witch, Eustace Scrubb,
Captain Drinian, Reepicheep the Mouse, Prince Caspian,
 Glenstorm the Centaur, Hwin the talking horse, Bree the talking horse, Shasta (Cor),
and Aravis. 

In this scene from 'The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe', the White Witch is pointing her wand at Mr. Tumnus the Fawn..You can see the Lamp Post in the back.

                                               

In this scene, Glenstorm from 'Prince Caspian' is just walking around finding food.

In this scene from 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader', Eustace, Captain Drinian, Reepicheep, and Prince Caspian are talking about all of the adventures they had
together.

In this scene, Shasta (Cor) and Aravis are riding on Bree and Hwin from 'The Horse And His Boy'.

This scene is a montage from different books with some characters together.
The books in the series in order are The Magicians Nephew, The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe,
Prince Caspian, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, The Horse And His Boy,
and The Last Battle