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26/11/2009
Two trainees were able to take up the opportunity: Anna Keir, a GTP trainee based in Chipping Campden School, and Daryl Bond, whose Parent Placement is at St Mary’s. In addition, Jane Moore, former SL for History, now Partnership Manager, also accepted the chance to be with pupils and visit these unforgettable sites during the weekend of Remembrance Sunday.
The trip began in Arras, and we travelled to many sites of the Somme – notably the Canadian memorial at Vimy Ridge, the Lochnagar crater at La Boiselle, the Newfoundland Memorial at Beaumont Hamel and the British Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, at Theipval, where over 72,000 names of soldiers with no known grave are inscribed.
On Sunday we moved up into Belgium near Ypres, where the mud had been as much an obstacle to progress as was trench warfare in the age of the machine-gun. The party visited Tyne Cot, the largest British war cemetery in the world, containing over 11,000 graves and 34,000 names. We also went to Langemark, a German cemetery – a very different experience.
After a trip to the ‘In Flanders Field’ museum at Ypres, the school visited Essex Farm, and held a small remembrance ceremony of their own. The highlight of the trip was a visit to Menin Gate for the 8.00pm playing of the Last Post and laying of wreaths.