When I was on the Great War battlefields recently......

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A local Army Cadet Corps did fund raising for three years for the the trip to do the battle field tour and to visit the Vimy memorial. Each cadet had taken a name from their local Cenotaph and did research on the fallen soldier.

They also visited the Canadian cemetery to find the graves with the names that they had taken from the Cenotaph. One cadet was at the graveside where he had put a small framed photograph of his 'adopted' soldier along with a poppy and a Canadian flag.
Totally by coincidence, some descendants of the soldier's family were also visiting that grave that day, they were speechless that some young person would even care.

The cadet pointed out that at sixteen years of age the fallen soldier was younger than they were. Everybody just lost it and cried.