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Gloucestershire Corps of Drums Buglers playing the Lasr Post
Dame Janet Trotter with Hon Col Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter, Col Lance Ranson TD, Cadet RSM Toby Bull, Gloucester ACF Banner party Brigadier Talby- Walsh and Col Peter Adams
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Cadet Lance Corporal Jak Vallender from Stroud Platoon said: ‘Our trip to France was very educational and emotional. We learnt that the first person to die in the Great War was only 17 – the same age as some of our Cadets’.
Cadet James Elsmore from Coleford
really something to remember. I have done a battlefield tour before with my school but being in the ACF has given me a different view of World War One and going with my fellow Cadets made the trip even more meaningful.’
Cadet Huzaifa Piluji from Podsmead
we had researched’.
Cadet LCpl Isacc Sneddon-Jenkins
from Tetbury Platoon ‘the expanse of the dsead was in great honour not only that they fought for their King and Country with enormous courage and will but the reasons they fought wer for loved ones they had left
Platoon said: ‘It was very moving when I was in the cemetery placing a Royal British Legion cross at a Gloucestershire Regiment soldier’s grave. I learnt so much about World War One from the Canadian tour guide at the Newfoundland Memorial Park.’
Cadet Leoni Potter from Tetbury Platoon said: ‘I found today very emotional and visiting the trenches and cemeteries made me realise how courageous the soldiers were. Every day, every night, and every second we will remember them’.
Cadet Jordan Parry from Hardwicke Platoon commented: ‘I will cherish this memory forever. Thank you for this opportunity’.
Cadet Beth Monday from Dursley Platoon said: ‘I found today very humbling. To think that people so young could give their life for me to live mine brings life into perspective’.
Platoon said: ‘I really enjoyed the tour of the preserved trenches
at the Newfoundland Memorial Park. Being in the area where so many lives were lost made me think how lucky we are.’
Cadet Jarrod
Hoffman from
Brockworth Platoon said: ‘It was so moving visiting the Pozieres Cemetery where my Great Great Uncle is buried. I will remember all of those from The Gloucestershire Regiment who died and are buried there.’
Cadet Lance Corporal Ryan Harris from Innsworth Platoon said: ‘It was a very moving experience especially when we found the name of the Glorious Gloster from Churchdown on the Thiepval Memorial that
behind to protect and keep free. In this we remember them.
Cadet LCpl Jordan Vines from Wotton- Under-Edge Platoon ‘Tread softly here! Go reverently and slow! Yea, let your soul go down upon its knees,
And with bowed head and heart based strive hard To grasp the future gain in this sore loss! For not one foot of this dank sod but drank Its surfeit of the blood of gallant men. Who, for their faith, their hope,—for Life and Liberty, Here made the sacrifice,— here gave their lives.
And gave right willingly—for you and me.’ Memorized from the Newfoundland War Memorial
‘We learnt that the first person to die in the Great War was only 17 – the same age as some of our Cadets’
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