Primary pupils prepare to honour war heroes
PUPILS at Salesbury School have been studying life on the front line during the First World War.
They stepped up their investigations with a trip to the Museum of Lancashire and Fulwood Barracks.
The children are taking part in a project ‘James Dixon’s Boys’ organised by Child Action Northwest. The project commemorates 11 former residents of Blackburn Orphanage killed in the Great War.
The children will join a service of remembrance with military honours on July 13 at 2pm at St Peter’s Church, Salesbury.
They will then plant 11 trees in a memorial garden at the old orphanage in Wilpshire.
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