Passchendaele Platoon Experience

Today students and teachers dressed in full WWI ANZAC uniforms including boots, trousers, tunics, steel helmets, rifles, gas masks, puttees and belts. While dressed we were assigned to a role, character and platoon and reenacted the footsteps of the ANZACS in 1917 as they forced back the German lines from Ypres to Passchendaele. 

In the bunks in a recreated bunker

In the tunnels of a bunker

Walking through trenches

Trenches again

More trenches 

Platoon before

Platoon after, led by Leiutennant Dane Richter

In uniform

Military style lunch

Medics

Beginning the march

Getting a briefing

Gas masks

An Australian memorial along the route between Ypres and Passchendaele. 

Receiving another briefing. 

The students performed very well and really got an appreciation for how difficult it was for our diggers in these and much worse conditions.