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Caedmon College Whitby History Department

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Some of the many, many thankyous given out to our fantastic students this week in Belgium #alwaysgrateful #thankyou
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Back in Blighty and heading north. Pals expected to arrive at Whitby Sixth Form site at 11.30
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The Pals Battalion board the Pride of Hull and head for dinner. Tomorrow they will land in Blighty as the Pride of Whitby having represented their town and their school admirably.
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We need to decompress and begin to return ourselves to 2020. Free time in Ypres aids this. Some officers return to the Menin Gate, others take a look around In Flanders Fields museum. The rank and file however seem to have mostly ended up in YpresBurger
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An interesting final story at a grave that may be unique on the Western Front. Against the rules of the CWGC the ashes of John Raphael’s mother were secretly buried at the grave of her son by a compassionate gardener many years after the war ended. Mother & son reunited in death
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The Experience continues into its final day. We visit the grave of Staff Nurse Nellie Spindler from Wakefield. The only woman buried in a cemetery of 10,000. Killed by a shell that landed on the clearing station where she was working in 1917 tending British and German soldiers
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It’s only 8am but our hard working Pals have already had breakfast and are filling in their reflection journal. This week has had a deep impact that they will feel for years to come. Maybe for a lifetime. Thankyou #mti for crafting such an inspirational experience
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As our final full day of the Battlefields Experience draws to a close the Pals head to the Menin Gate which for them now has real significance. They have trod in their footsteps, lived where they lived and stood where they died. Now #wewillremember them
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Here is what our Pals wanted to leave to represent them and their memories of the Battlefields Experience
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Tonight the Pals will lay wreaths of remembrance. A and B companies form working parties to work out appropriate wording #wewillrememberthem
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Teachers after 4 days on a trenches school trip be like...
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Company B march to Tynecot, with the songs of the soldiers to keep their spirits up on the way
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A break in the weather as A Company march to Tyne Cot. The battle of #passchendaele was fought in the worst rain Flanders had ever seen. Finally captured by the Canadians in November the land was given up just four months later
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‘A’ company take up the I Wore A Tunic Challenge first laid down by the 1st Caedmon Pals Battalion In 2018
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The Pals visiting the grave of Valentine ‘Joe’ Strudwick, a 15 year old young man, the youngest soldier buried on the Western Front
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The Pals hear about John McCrae at the advance dressing station at which he worked. Private McDermott then reads his famous poem at the very spot it was written #inflandersfields #realeducation #properlearning
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There is so much to take in this week and to help them process their experiences our Pals fill in a reflection journal each night where they jot down their thoughts and feelings about the places we visited.
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Spag Bol for dinner tonight. A hungry Pals Battalion tucks in, er, hungrily...
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The Vimy Ridge memorial stands on the site of Hill 145 which is the highest point of the 14 kilometre long Vimy Ridge. At the cost of 10,000 Canadian lives, the ridge was taken from the Germans and proved to be a turning point for the Allied forces in the war.
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Enthusiastic rendition of wartime classic, “I wore a Tunic”
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