Cadets paid their respects to those who gave their lives in the First World War during a moving ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium.
A contingent of 50 cadets and their leaders from Middlesex and West London Army Cadet Force left on Friday (February 28) morning for a weekend in France and Belgium to gain an insight into life in the trenches.
That evening they paraded in uniform at the Menin Gate memorial, where the Last Post has been played every evening since 1928, during a wreath-laying ceremony.
The following day they donned the uniform a 1917 Australian Platoon member would have worn and, rifle in hand, trooped across the same terrain they would have trod all those years ago, before sitting down to a 'Tommy Tucker' meal, complete with corned beef.
On Sunday they visited a series of battlefields before heading to Essex Farm Cemetery, in Flanders, where they laid a wreath at the grave of a young soldier, and then home.
Among the cadets were representatives from the 192 Heston Detachment (Army Air Corps), in Vicarage Farm Road, Heston.
