@Cockburn John Charle 24 Jul 2024
Our final day of our WWI Battlefields trip was spent at Thiepval Memorial to the missing, where students saw over 72,000 names of soldiers who have no known grave as their bodies have never been found. Students looked for soldiers with their surnames to see how many they could find especially those from the West Yorkshire Regiment. We had a brief stop at the Ulster Tower to remember the Irish soldiers who fought and died in WWI and then went to Neuve Chapelle to see the memorial to the Indian soldiers. We ended our trip with a visit to Lijssenthoek cemetery to see the graves of Chinese soldiers and the grave of Nellie Spindler, a nurse from Wakefield, who is the only female buried in a military cemetery. She died after a shell exploded and she gave her life saving her patient. We finished with an emotional visit to the grave of one of our student's relatives, the great, great great grandad of Charlie Tunstall. He was from Glasgow but lived in Hunslet and was part of the Cheshire Regiment. He is buried at Lijssenthoek cemetery after being injured but sadly dying of his wounds in October 1918. May he rest in peace.