In September, Mr Forsyth and two learners
from Y10 visited the battlefield sites of Ypres and the Somme. This year marks
the 100 anniversary of the second battle of Ypres.
As well as visiting the town of Ypres and
several World War One cemeteries, the learners from Kepier also took part in
the remembrance ceremony at the Menin gate which has taken place every night at
8pm since 1927.
They were lucky enough to contribute to the
Belgian government’s art project to create 600,000 clay soldiers which will form
an installation in November 2018 to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of
the end of the war. Each clay soldier represents a real soldier who died
fighting on the Ypres Salient.
On the final day, Mr Forsyth, Luke and Ross
visited Thiepval which was being made ready for the commemorations next year
for the anniversary of the battle of the Somme. The Thiepval memorial has
72,195 names inscribed to remember those soldiers whose bodies were never found
after the battle.
As well as visiting Tyne Cot, the largest
British cemetery in the world, to lay a wreath of remembrance, the learners and
Mr Forsyth visited Langemark a German Cemetery with a distinctly different way
of remembering those killed in conflict.
Tyne Cot Cemetary
Langemark
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