St Margaret's IB French students found the grave of a young soldier from Canterbury on the Cimetière de Saint-Sever in Rouen. His name was R.H.I. Norton, he died on May 9th 1918.

The girls wore the poppies the students from the collège Etouvie in Amiens had made for them for ANZAC Day, and left them at the grave. The students were overwhelmed by the size of the cemetery which holds 11,436 commonwealth graves, 185 of which are New Zealanders. While the girls mainly looked for soldiers from Canterbury, they found mostly soldiers from Auckland, Wellington and Otago. After more than an hour searching and due to the weather turning bad, they gave up and will now investigate further from home. French students will also be involved in the research which ideally ends up in cooperative google mapping project, and which could also includes some writing in both French and English. In the context of our research we had a very fruitful meeting with a colleague from the lycée Sedar Sengher in Evreux near Rouen who might be interested in joining this project.