Two students from Kinver High School & Sixth Form have paid their respects to the soldiers who fell fighting during World War One. Al Poxon and Max Kiosses, both in Year 10, visited the Great War battlefields of Belgium and France as part of a programme, run by the government, to mark the centenary of the conflict. Between 13th and 16th September Al and Max visited the Somme Salient and the historic Belgian town of Ypres, both areas experienced heavy fighting during the calamitous First World War. They visited the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres where they heard the last post ceremony, which has been running every evening non-stop since 1928.

The students also visited the Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest British Commonwealth cemetery on the continent, containing nearly 12,000 burials. They also visited the Ulster Memorial Tower on the Somme Salient and whilst there were able to view reconstructed front-line trenches, communications trenches and mortar pits.

Mr Davies, history teacher from Kinver High School, said: "Visiting the battlefields and cemeteries of the First World War has really brought home to the students the shocking reality of this conflict. We owe a debt of gratitude to those brave men who laid down their lives for King and Country."

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