Twenty-two local students are taking the trip of a lifetime to Europe to see the places they have been studying.
Tauranga Girls' College students have been fundraising for more than a year to get the $7000 each girl needs for their trip to France, Belgium, Italy and Greece in April, covering sites significant to the studies of both history and classical studies students.
This year is the centenary of major World War I battles fought on the Western Front, including the Battle of the Somme, an occasion the girls will be able to commemorate.
A military historian will take the girls to visit some of the battlefields and memorials from WWI that hold special significance to New Zealanders. In Belgium, the group will visit the Arras Tunnels and the Underground Quarry Museum. Here, the girls will don a uniform, carry a rifle and eat a "Tommy Tucker" lunch as part of a Passchendaele platoon experience.
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