First World War Commemoration

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 21 April 2016.

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Photo of Christopher Pincher Christopher Pincher Conservative, Tamworth 12:00, 21 April 2016

I was grateful to William Pritchard and Billy Green from The Rawlett School, who laid a wreath in memory of my great-grandfather, who was killed on the first day of the battle of the Somme in 1916. In this, its centenary year, may I ask my right hon. Friend to encourage school visits to the Somme battlefield memorials, to remember the men who made such a sacrifice all those years ago