8A recently visited Flanders and The Somme to tour the
battlefields of the Western Front in Flanders and on the Somme. They had a
memorable time and were very lucky to stay in Talbot House in Poperinge,
Belgium. This was set up in 1915 as a “home from home” for troops recovering
after battle and is kept today as a living museum.
Highlights of the trip
included the last post ceremony at the Menin Gate at Ypres, Tyne Cot cemetery,
Passchendale, Hills 60 and 62 and many of the famous landmarks of the battle of
the Somme 1916, including the Lochnagar Crater, Delville and Mametz woods, the
Thiepval memorial, the excavated trenches in Thiepval Wood and the Sunken Lane
and Canadian Memorial Park at Beaumont Hamel. The scholars are now busily
working on their extended projects. Oh, and there was a modicum of chocolate
shopping too!
