St Columba's students return from Gallipoli

Updated November 18 2014 - 3:43pm, first published 12:00am
Centenary of Anzac Scholarship winners Lihini de Silva, Dan Nguyen, Madison Thompson, Emily Frey, Jack Jeffries and Sam Lewis. The students travelled to many battlefields of WWI. Madison and Sam are students at St Columba's College.
Centenary of Anzac Scholarship winners Lihini de Silva, Dan Nguyen, Madison Thompson, Emily Frey, Jack Jeffries and Sam Lewis. The students travelled to many battlefields of WWI. Madison and Sam are students at St Columba's College.

Two St Columba's Catholic College students, Madison Thompson and Samuel Lewis, recently returned from an 11-day ANZAC scholarship program to Gallipoli and the Western Front. The students were part of a group of six chosen from western Sydney. They paid their respects to the fallen at Villers-Bretonneux and Tyne Cot and the severity of WWI was brought home to them after visiting the memorials and seeing headstones of soldiers as young as them.

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