The two are taking part in the annual Battlefield Study Tour which is sponsored by the Canadian Battle of Normandy Foundation.
S tanding on the actual ground where Canadian soldiers lost their lives puts history in perspective.
Near Rimini in 1999, one of our UNB students, who had studied the attack of the Cape Breton Highlanders on the Gothic Line in 1944, was able to see for herself the evidence of the battle, Dr. Milner said. She stood amid the 50 or so graves of the regiment, all with the same date of death, and all on the battlefield where they had fallen. This kind of thing removes the abstraction from the event as experienced only through books. This time around, Ms. Lewell, a master s student in English, and Mr. Theobald, a master s student in history, were chosen from applicants across the country to take part in the tour. They will be part of a group of 12 students spending a week on the First World War battlefields of France and Belgium, two days in Dieppe, and then 10 days in Normandy.