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Thanks to all parents, carers and students for making this such a wonderful trip.

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Coach three getting a slightly later train, should be back at Rosebery for about 22:00

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Leaving the Somme and heading home.

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Saved the best to last. Heartbreaking Somme stories from Beaumont Hamel.

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A very different gravesite at Fricourt German cemetery.

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This is what Edwardian grief looks like, the huge Thiepval memorial

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Our Canadian guide’s great great grandfather fought and died here..

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We’re very lucky to get a guide for the tunnels and trenches.

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Vimy ridge visitor centre and trenches

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First stop, the remarkable vimy ridge memorial

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And we’re off!

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Very much looking forward to our Y8 WW1 battlefields trip tomorrow but we need to dress accordingly….

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Hard to imagine 25,000 German soldiers are buried in this raised area at Langemark cemetery.

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Tyne cot cemetery, the largest commonwealth grave in the world. A deeply moving and sombre place with appropriate weather conditions.

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Our 6th formers did us proud at the Menin Gate.

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Back in Blighty after an amazing day with amazing students. Should be back at school for 8:45pm

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Very glad many of our students managed to get down into the tunnel complex under Vimy Ridge.