Local high schools in the Monaro are being presented with an opportunity to send students to travel across France and Belgium to retrace the footsteps of the Anzacs, Member for Monaro John Barilaro has announced.
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Together with the Minister for Veterans Affairs, David Elliott, Mr Barilaro is encouraging high schools to enter the ballot for the 2018 Premier’s Anzac Memorial Scholarship.
Twenty successful schools will be drawn from the ballot, after which students from the schools will prepare pieces of work based on the Centenary of Anzac.
Each school will select one winner to participate in the tour.
The opportunity allows students from Years 10 and 11 at local Government, Catholic and Independent Schools to have the chance to take part in a 13-day tour of the significant Australian battlefields of Ypres, Passchendaele, the Somme and Flanders in Belgium for the centenary of the Battle of Hamel.
“It is an incredible chance for students to visit key Australian memorial sites, and to witness firsthand the fields upon which our young men and women fought and forged the Anzac spirit,” Mr Barilaro said.
Mr Elliott said the 2018 pilgrimage to the Western Front will encourage this new generation to better understand the service and sacrifice of our Anzacs on battlefields half a world away from home.
School principals should lodge an expression of interest by 5pm on August 17, 2017 at www.veterans.nsw.gov.au. The successful schools will be announced after August 20.
