Firstly we got on a bus and the driver didn’t know where to go so he got us a little lost. Our class went on a trip to the Gordon Highlanders Museum on Wednesday 22^nd of June for are topic WW2.We were spilt into 3 different groups and there was 3 different stations. Every group had a leader.Group1 had Elsbeth, Group2 had Lewis which was the group we were in and Group3 had Gordon. Now I am going to tell you about each station and what we did at it.

In our first station we had to find who the mystery soldier was by using details from WW2. Some of the things we had to find out were: his name, rank which is his position in the army, his army number, where he fought, his date of birth etc. This was my favourite by far, I really enjoyed it.

In our second station we looked at some WW2 clothes and weapons. In our group Callum and Abi tried on some WW2 clothing. Callum tried on some clothes that you would wear on a colder because if you wore it on a warm day you would get very sweaty. Abi tried on something that you could wear on a warm day. The rest of us only got to try on war hats and hold guns like a rifle and a Sten machine gun but we also held a mills bomb and the nickname for it was the pineapple bomb. This was Daisy’s favourite because you got to hold guns and bombs and it was interesting.

In our final station we saw a model of a little village that had be bombed by Canadians they call it the battle of Goch. Goch is a massive battle that happened in February 1945. We had to describe what we thought it would feel like if we were one of the people there. We described what he saw, heard, and felt. After that we looked at another battle which was called Thomashof. There was one man who got a DSO his name was Major George Morrison. He got his DSO for encouraging the people who he fought with because so many of them wanted to go home and missing home. Major George Morrison got 7 medals for his bravery. He thought the people he fought with should get his DSO but they said that he should have it instead because he was the one who encouraged them to keep fighting.

Overall the trip was very good and we learnt a lot of things.

By Elise, Daisy and Mairi