This book has been designed to give the reader a sense of life before, during and after WW1. It places Barambah-Cherbourg within a State-wide context and provides an insight into what was occurring throughout the State of Queensland at the time. Each soldier’s profile is supported by both primary and secondary sources which are linked to this website.
To order the Boys from Barambah workbook please go to:
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One of the main goals of the Boys from Barambah project is to provide a resource for schools that is linked to the National Curriculum, identifies Key Learning Areas and Outcomes. We have plotted the ways in which the materials can be used in studies from Prep to grade 10 in the areas of History, Civics and Citizenship, English and Modern History.
Download Year 9 Research Framework [PDF 132kb]
This Year 9 research process document is a framework which requires the student to research and produce a Biographical Report of one of the Barambah WW1 Diggers. It is a comprehensive framework that allows students to follow a dedicated historical process using evidence to reconstruct the lives of those who served so bravely.
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The Cherbourg Memory is an initiative of the Rationshed Museum and brings together the photos, videos, oral history recordings, documents and other artifacts of our lives on this settlement. It a website, an archive, an educational resource, a recording project, a research data-base, a store of the people’s stories and an interactive space for comments and engagement. We encourage the people of Cherbourg, the Indigenous communities in Australia and others who have experience of our settlement to help us create a living archive of Barambah-Cherbourg. So find out a little more about the Cherbourg Memory, discover how you can Participate, or find out how you can Contribute to the development of the Cherbourg Memory.
A Rationshed Museum initiative
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