Sidney Lewis was the youngest British soldier to serve in World War I, enlisting at age 12. He fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 before being discovered and sent home due to being underage. Lewis had run away from his home in South London to join the army without his mother's permission, motivated by a desire to take part in the Great War. He served with the 106th Machine Gun Corps before his young age was discovered and he was discharged.

1. SIDNEY LEWIS
BY RUEN BECERRA JORDI CAJIGA BENJAMIN RUIZ AND VICTOR GOMEZ

2. Who was Sidney Lewis
Sidney Lewis was the youngest British soldier in (“World War I” also
known as the “Great War”) He was twelve years old when he fought
at the battle of Somme in 1916. In world war I, a numbe of young boys
joined up to serve as soldiers before they were eighteen, the legal age
to serve in the army. It was reported that the yougest British soldier was
twelve year old, sent home from France in 1917 with other underage
boys from various regiments.

3. What did he do
he was youngest
authenticated British
soldier in World War I was
the twelve-year-old Sidney
Lewis who fought at
the Battle of the Somme in
1916

4. When did he do
 Sidney Lewis enlisted in August 1915, and was fighting in the
trenches of the Western Front by the following June.

5. Where did he do
 Sidney Lewis escaped from his home in South London leaving his
mother alone.

6. Why did he do
 Sidney Lewis escaped from his home because he wanted to enlist in
the army for going to the Great War, he was discovered in a trench
and sent back to his home

7. How did he do
 He would go on to fight in the Battle of the
Somme with the 106th Machine Gun
Corps.

8. Compare and contrast with us
 If we were in Lewis situation we wouldn't go to war because we
would know that weapons kill people and maby these guns would
kill us

9. What did he did
 he left his home because he wanted to go to war until, until they
discover he was a twelve year old kid in the battle of the somme

10. Conclusion
 our conclusion is that he was a great and brave man with lots of
gutsfor joining the Great War and that he wanted to fight because
in that time people didn't knew that the war would be so tragic,
bloody, deadly and exhausting