CDDHS/DCMA Battlefields Tour 2013

Sunday in Frances

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Villers Station Cemetery contains 1,208 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 32 German war graves. 
 

 Villers Cemetary 2012

There are 74 Canadians buried here from the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
 

We read some paragraphs about Canadian soldiers who had died during World War I and are buried here. Afterwards students found the grave marker and left a poppy, Canadian flag and paragraph at the headstone.
Easter Sunday in France 2012
We also visited a German cemetery, Hill 62 and tunnels and visited the bunkers where John McCrae of Guelph, writer of "In Flanders Fields" once fought.