My battlefield trip experience 2016

During the summer I was fortunate to have been able to take a school trip where we went to various Memorials, graveyards and battlefields in France and Belgium. The weather was very hot and some days reached temperatures of 36 degrees Celsius (96.8 degrees Fahrenheit) which I know for alot of others around the world isn't hot but being From the UK that kind of weather is like extreme to us! Witnessing the shear amount of gravestones put into perspective how catastrophic the First World War was and just how many people were involved. The trip required a lot of travelling but I reckon their was still a great deal that we didn't get time to see. I'd recommend this trip to anyone who's interested in history or just wanting to pay their respect towards the people who fought for the freedom of us all today. Here's some of the pictures I took:

This is a picture of vimy memorial where the battle of vimy ridge was held from April 9, 1917-April 12, 1917. Whilst we were there, we saw Canadians giving other tourists a tour of the area as many Canadian troops fought there.

This is a picture of Thiepval memorial which also featured on the news in the U.K. earlier this year to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the battle of the Somme. Many of the royal family have been here and David Cameron (the Uk's previous priminster).

This was one feature at the Thiepval museum that I found really interesting. On this board shows the soliders that went missing as a result of the battle.


The two photos above are from a cemetery of German soldiers who took place in battle during World War One and lost their lives. As our history teacher pointed out, in which I agreed with, the atmosphere seemed completely different to when we attended a British cemetery as shown in this photo:

In this photo features an unexploded grenade that quite possibly could have been from the First World War looking at the condition it was in. Surprisingly, we found it just around the outskirts of a cemetery.

Here you see a crater formed from a huge bomb explosion.

This cemetery is known as delville woods which is a memorial for South African soldiers and where the battle of delville wood took place which was a series of engagement that started in 1916.

I hoped you enjoyed this post and thanks for taking time out to read this.