280 Greek students visit Salonika Military Cemetery, Greece

On Thursday 24 October, 280 teenage students from the six classes of the 1st High School of Moudania, located in Chalkidiki visited the CWGC Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery, Greece.

The young visitors and their teachers took a tour of the cemetery guided by Periklis Charalampidis and Eirini Stampolidou, where they learned how the CWGC cares for World War cemeteries in the Hellenic Republic.

Standing in front of the Cross of Sacrifice, they learnt about the history of the more than 1,600 Commonwealth soldiers who fought in the Great War, when that area was the base of the British Salonika Force and who now rest in this evocative cemetery in the town of Thessaloniki.