Year
9 visited the World
War 1 battlefields at Ypres in
Belgium and the Somme in
northern France. They visited Tyne Cot -
the largest British Military cemetery,
which contains the graves of almost 12,000
British war dead as well as a wall containing a further
30,000 names of the missing.
They visited the Menin
Gate where the Last Post Ceremony
takes place at 8pm, every day of the year. On the walls
are thousands of names of fallen soldiers with no known
grave. They also visited
the enormous Lochnargar crater,
the Thiepval Memorial,
the German cemetery at Langemarck and
the unique museum which houses a collection of war memorabilia
as well
as preserved trenches.
Not forgetting a visit to Leonidas,
the Belgian chocolate shop!
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