Over half term, 52 students went on the History Battlefields Trip to Belgium and France and enjoyed a packed four-day tour, which included the well-preserved site of Napoleon’s final defeat, surviving trenches of World War 1 and some of the beautiful memorials and cemeteries dedicated to the remembrance of the fallen.
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Crossing the Channel to Calais
Route marking Napoléon's journey to Belgium
The group head off to the Waterloo Battlefield
Mr Clayton giving an in-situ history lesson
Students practicing their battle skills
Climbing to the top of the Lion's Mound at Waterloo
At the top of the Lion's Mound
The Curator of Hougoumont, Waterloo
The Museum at Sanctuary Wood
The trenches at Sanctuary Wood
Some sections run underground
Students experiencing the trenches
The trench system is quite extensive
Tyne Cot Cemetery in Ypres
Sunset at Tyne Cot
The Last Post at the Menin Gate
Graves at the Neuville-St Vaast German War Cemetery
Neuville-St Vaast German War Cemetery
Vimy Ridge
The Vimy Ridge memorial, honouring Canadian soldiers who fought there
Over ten miles of tunnels at Vimy Ridge
In the trenches of Vimy Ridge
Hideout at Vimy
Tunnel entrance at Vimy
The Grange Subway at Vimy
The tunnel system enabled men to get to the front lines
Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial
Ancre Cemetery
The grave of old Bridgnorthian Lieutenant Alec Boucher
The grave of old Bridgnorthian Robert Harry Walker
Arriving at Lochnagar Crater
The Crater was created by a large mine detonation
