So, one year since we were over the Channel. I can't quite believe how time has flown, how much has happened in the last year. I imagine that catching up with everyone would take more than two days, f...

This is the grave of a member of the British West Indian Regiment. This is a very rare fine, very few graves, with very few combatants - only 12 battalions. I have uploaded it to show the very interna...

German cemeteries greatly contrast to British ones, and they are both very different to French cemeteries. British graves, as you can see in some of my other blogs are white blocks, and there is very ...

German cemeteries greatly contrast to British ones, and they are both very different to French cemeteries. British graves, as you can see in some of my other blogs are white blocks, and there is very ...

A follow up to my earlier video of the Last Post, this one is of Grace, Padraig, Emily and David laying a wreath.

Private George Ellison was the last British casualty of the Great War. The following is an excerpt from a Sunday Express article that can be found at http://www.express.co.uk/printer/view/70134/
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Lieutenant Maurice James Dease was the first Victoria Cross recipient of the Great War. The following is an excerpt from his Wikipedia page that can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_...

Private John Parr was the first British casualty of the Great War. The following is an excerpt from his Wikipedia page that can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Parr_(soldier)


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Every night, at 8 o'clock the Belgian town of Ypres remembers those who served in the Great War with a ceremony at the Menin Gate.
Before the trip, I'd been to the ceremony three times, laying a wrea...

I also did a couple of live phone interviews for a local radio station on Tuesday 11th November, 2008, from France and Belgium. The first was for the Phil Upton at Breakfast show and the second for th...

As part of their special Remembrance themed programme this Tuesday, the 11th, my local ITV region, Central, included a special report on me! This entailed reporter Becky Johnson visiting me at my hous...

Thanks need to go to:
The guys from TPYF and Radiowaves would made this trip possible,
All those who commented on my page... (thanks mum!)
And the all the other kids who went.

 
It was a g...

Hooge Crater with trenches in foreground. The crater was created when British troops detonated a mine to try and slow a German advance, in this object it failed as the Germans still gained ground. Now...

Robert being interviewed by Becky for ITV Central

Looking down Tyne Cot cemetery. Tyne Cot is the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries in the world with 11,954 graves and 34,959 names of men with no known grave on the memorial wall. ...

Tyne Cot from afar

Canadian memorial in Passchendaele village

The landscape in front of the Vimy Ridge memorial by Vicky

Back of Canadian memorial at Vimy Ridge

'I adore war, it's like a big picnic' Julian Grenvill, a Captain in
the Royal Dragoons, wrote this in a letter in October 1914. In May
1915 he died of shrapnel wounds in hospital in Boulogne.

T...

Wow, that took ages, but here it is! Amy's original group's vox pop from last weekend. The group being Vicky, Anna, Emily, Alex, Peter, Matt and myself. There's a French D-Day veteran, an-ex teacher w...

This is the second of my series of blogs answering some of the questions we were given on the weekend. This includes my ideas for our Remembrance service.



Who are you remembering?
All those wh...

As everyone else has been giving you all blow-by-blow accounts of everything we did, I'm just going to answer a few questions we were given before we left.
 
Was it what you expected?
Yes, and...

The Cenotaph from the prep weekend

Houses of Parliament from prep weekend