CAFC Academy off to "Wipers" this weekend

Henry Irving

Clive Harris of http://www.battle-honours.eu/ but better know on here as SG3toSE7 is taking a party of Academy players to Ypres and other first world war sites such as the Christmas Day football match, where Jimmy Seed was gassed and Sam Bartram's dad won a Military Medal as well as the Menin Gate at Wipers/Ypres.

Clive will be tweeting pics and updates @chathmuseum over the weekend so follow if you don't already.

https://twitter.com/CHATHMuseum

Henry Irving

First tweet up

Henry Irving

Our U18 side are in Ypres on an educational visit at the WWI graves. (Photos: @CHATHMuseum) pic.twitter.com/VIHOOrEwBn #FootballRemembers #cafc

— Charlton Athletic FC (@CAFCofficial) August 1, 2014

Henry Irving

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Davo55

Nice one Clive and co. This will be an amazing experience for the youngsters.

SE7toSG3

A few pics from yesterday, the lads really engaged with the subject and were a credit to the club, some real characters among the group but the size and scale of the Great War had a real impact on them, we made a specoal focus on our own involvement as a club in the war and the group were amazed in the interest that the locals had in Charlton and wanted to talk about Bob Peeters to everyone!

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Henry Irving

Nice one, Clive.

I'm sure you did a great job of telling the story but it's good that the players and coaches engaged so well and that the Club wanted to take the young players.

Hope it becomes a regular event.

The Bob Peeters story made me laugh.

Henry Irving

Some good quotes from Archie Edwards and others on CAFC Academy twitter account