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The battle of Vimy Ridge.

We're following what happened when a party of 50 teenagers from a Leicestershire school went on a very special trip to France. This wasn't just a jolly, for the 14 year olds from the Lancaster School in Leicester, it was an emotional journey finding out more about World War 1 and the Christmas truce of 1914. Before the pupils met up with a hundred french and german students in Reims, there was a trip to the battlefield which is now a grave site at Vimy Ridge a short distance from the town of Arras..The battle of Vimy Ridge was one of the greatest battles led by Canada during World War I. 大象传媒 Radio Leicester's Bridget Blair was there..

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