Children learn family history on forces day

Mosque leaders and Muslim children across the towns of Dewsbury, Batley and Heckmondwike have been paying their tributes to the armed forces.
By The Newsroom
Published 12th Jul 2018, 19:12 GMT
Updated 16th Jul 2018, 16:58 GMT
Display pride: Mosque leaders (from Left) Zamir Ahmed and Colonel Mohammad Fayum stand next to a One In Every Family display set up at Dewsbury Railway Station.Display pride: Mosque leaders (from Left) Zamir Ahmed and Colonel Mohammad Fayum stand next to a One In Every Family display set up at Dewsbury Railway Station.
Display pride: Mosque leaders (from Left) Zamir Ahmed and Colonel Mohammad Fayum stand next to a One In Every Family display set up at Dewsbury Railway Station.

Local Muslim places of worship organised a number of special activities for their Maddrassah pupils to mark ‘Armed Forces Day’ by teaching them about the interesting and diverse colonial history of the British Army going back nearly 200 years.

The new “Our Shared History, Our Shared Heritage” exhibition showing archive photos of the old ‘British-Indian Army’ fighting alongside white English soldiers during the First World War, is one of the many different resources being used by Mosques to teach children as to why today’s Armed Forces are just as an important part of our society as they were a century ago.

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