Danielle Cooper, a John Paul College Year 13 student, meeting Prince Charles. PHOTO/SUPPLIED
Danielle Cooper, a John Paul College Year 13 student, meeting Prince Charles. PHOTO/SUPPLIED
John Paul College Year 13 student Danielle Cooper had the chance to meet a prince while commemorating the Battle of the Somme.
Danielle was one of the 10 New Zealand students chosen for the Young Ambassadors' tour, organised by the French Embassy.
The main commemoration of the New Zealand advanceduring the battle was held last week.
There was a dawn service at the New Zealand memorial in Longueval, attended by Gerry Brownlee and the official ceremony which was attended by Prince Charles.
This was held at Caterpillar Valley where there are many New Zealand graves.
The students have already been to Le Quesnoy which the New Zealand troops liberated in the last week of the war and the Wellington Quarry - an underground museum to the memory of thousands of men of the British Army and Dominion Forces who lived under the city during WWI.
In particular, work of the tunnellers of the New Zealand Division is commemorated.