On the 24th of June the students visited the Armoury at the Auckland War Memorial Museum as part of our project. They were there to research the journey of their allocated soldier. Each student has a soldier from the Auckland area - either Infantry Regiment or Armoured Rifles - who left NZ for France in 1916. All of these soldiers died either in the Battle of Broodseinde or at Cambrai. They are all buried at Tyne Cot Cemetery.
We spent the day reading and photographing information from the resources at the Armory and from the Reading Room. The assistance from Museum staff was gratefully accepted and the students were able to find specific information about each battle, the training at Trentham before they left, and what the journey was like on the troopships including the magazines published on board.
We depart for France in less than three months. All our final preparations are underway, the students are getting nervous and the enormous amounts of paperwork are done!
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