The Platoon Experience

Your group will be put in the position of an Australian Platoon in 1917. Students will be fully dressed and equipped - rifle, luggage and uniform!

Each member of the platoon embodies an Australian who was actually there then, walking across the very terrain 90 years ago. Bit by bit, students learn more about him as a person and at the end of the day, on Tyne Cot Cemetery, you’re informed about your soldier’s fate. A sobering confrontation! To end the day, students are served a ‘Tommy Tucker’-meal (with corned beef), a genuine soldier’s meal of 1917. If you are not able to spend a whole day here, a 1 hour experience is available.

School groups will be able to book a guide for a one hour briefing about the way a soldier looked like. One student will also be dressed up.

History Trips