From the 10th – 15th June 2012, 40 S4 pupils from Oban High School took part in the school’s annual Battlefields Trip.  The pupils visited a variety of sites associated with the First World War including the best preserved trenches on the Western Front at Sanctuary Wood, near Ypres, the famous Thiepval monument at the Somme and on the last night they attended the Menin Gate ceremony and laid a wreath in memory of those who had died during the Great War.

The pupils also visited the grave of James Turnbull, a Victoria Cross winner from Oban who died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme as well as the memorial to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in the Somme area.  At Tynecot cemetery, the largest British cemetery in the world with other 11,000 graves, the pupils also paid their respects to Hugh McInnes, a former pupil of Oban High School who died during the Battle of Passchaendale in 1917.

Above picture: Pupils vists the grave of James Turnbull V.C. at Lonsdale Cemetery, Somme, France