The students begin the day with a visit to the Y Ravine Cemetery Interpretative Centre and a guided tour of the area. Then the group will continue their tour of the Somme region , visiting the graves of their "adopted" soldiers. Below is today`s list of cemeteries and the counties remembered.
- Y Ravine Cemetery - Soldier from Westmeath
- Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery - Soldier from Wexford
- Auchonvilliers Cemetery - Soldier from Louth
- Sucrerie Cemetery - Soldier from Kilkenny
- Serre Road No1 Cemetery - Soldier from Monaghan
- Grevilliers Cemetery - Soldiers from Offaly & Mayo
- Sailly Saillisel Cemetery - Soldier from Limerick
The group will then travel to Ypres, where they will attend a memorial event at the Menin Gate.
Ypres Cathedral.
The Menin Gate Memorial.
The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Ypres, dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War 1 and whose graves are unknown.
The Menin Gate Memorial at night.