TWO Year 10 students and a teacher from Callington Community College travelled to the former battlefields of Belgium as part of a government initiative to commemorate the centenary of World War One.

Grace Bennallick, Abbie Lewis and history teacher Carolyn Woodman travelled to Belgium on the Government-sponsored tour of the Ypres Salient and the Somme battlefields.

The trip included visiting significant battle sites where the students got to stand on the battlefields and experience life in the trenches, once occupied by British troops. They also went to several places of commemoration such as he Thiepval Memorial Park and the Tyne Cot and Devon cemeteries.

At Tyne Cot the students had the opportunity to lay a wreath by the memorial for Harold Bridgman who was once a student at Callington College. They were also able to witness the daily act of remembrance at the Menin Gate Last Post ceremony.

Both students explained that they felt the trip was ‘very important’ as it had opened their eyes to the real horrors of the war and had given them a better understanding of why it was so important to remember the soldiers who went out to fight during the conflict.