The students at AJHS have also been involved in the Dolores Cross Project.
This is a project started by Dolores Ho, Chief Archivist at the Waiouru Army Museum.
Her vision is to have every NZ grave in foreign cemeteries visited and a Dolores Cross placed there. The grave is then photographed. The Dolores Cross is a harakeke (flax) cross with an ANZAC poppy.
Our students feel privileged to be part of this and see this as a service that they can provide as they are lucky to be traveling to Flanders.
We have made 100 crosses and are sending 50 back to Dolores to be given to others who are traveling.
We are taking our 50 crosses to Tyne Cot Cemetery in Ypres.
We have a list of 50 graves of NZ soldiers to place crosses at and photograph.
The students have found it difficult at first to make the crosses and many were thrown away but they persevered and spent approximately 8 lunchtimes at school making the crosses.
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Friday, 12 September 2014 15:41
posted by Pascale Hyboud-Peron
What a wonderful way to get involved and spend time making something together for such a visionary project. You are successfully embedding the intent of the Sharedhistories programme by linking it very closely with another community project. We look forward to reading more about your trip, and discovering your pictures and videos! It would be interesting to read from Dolores and her reaction to your involvement. Maybe your students could interview her (by email) and post her replies here? Bon voyage à Ypres!
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