@Cockburn John Charle 16 Jul 2026
Our first day of the Battlefields trip was spent in Ypres where students visited Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery to hear the stories of some of those buried there including nurse Nellie Spindler from Wakefield- the only female buried on the Western Front, the grave of a 15-year-old soldier and those who came to serve from the West Indies, China, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, America, Ireland, India and Africa. We also then visited the town of Ypres eating at Yperley restaurant in an old bank for our evening meal and went to the famous chocolate shop to sample and buy the famous Belgian chocolate before returning to the hotel for hide and seek and tigs in the woods.