MILITARY historians from the Heugh Battery Memorial Trust were on hand to educate children about the First World War yesterday.
Pupils from St John Vianney's Primary School, Hartlepool, spent the day at the battery with members of the trust, who were wearing and carrying the authentic equipment of the Royal Garrison Artillery and Durham Light Infantry.
Gary Kester, from the Heugh Memorial Trust, said: "First of all, we showed them a film on the battery, then they were given a tour.
"They also wore uniforms like the ones the servicemen would have worn and we gave then drills and a demonstration of what life was like in the trenches.
"We finished with a question and answer session, which we had to stop in the end because they were so many hands up."
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