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Video NationYou are in: Suffolk > People > Video Nation > Song for the fallen  Ed and Jonathan Song for the fallenFollowing a school trip to the First World War battlefields of France and Belgium, a 15 year old schoolboy has written a musical piece in honour of a dead relative. Jonathan's work coincides with the 90th Remembrance Day in November 2008.
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In October 2008, 70 history pupils from Copleston High School in Ipswich went on a four day trip to Ypres in Belgium. They saw the battlefields of Belgium and France including visits to the Somme and Ipswich's twin-town of Arras. Jonathan was searching for evidence of his great great uncle who died at the Somme on 18 August 1916 at the age of 19. He was serving with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. No trace of Jack Addison Thorburn's body was found, but his name is on the Thiepval Memorial. Jonathan's been inspired to write a piece of music about the Great War for his music GCSE. It uses the poems In Flanders Field by John McCrae and For The Fallen by Laurence Binyon. The group performing the piece is: Jonathan (2nd voice and piano), another Jonathan (trumpet), Lucy and Jasmine (1st voice), Will (2nd voice), Ed (violin) and Liddy and Rebecca (cellos). In his film, Jonathan talks about visiting the battlefields and what he's trying to achieve with the music. Read a feature about the Battle of Arras, 1917: last updated: 06/11/2008 at 11:11 Have Your SayWhat do you think of Jonathan's piece? Have you visited the battlefields and cemeteries of the Great War?
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