THE grandson of a First World War casualty will recreate life in the trenches for students today.
Infantryman James Condon, whose story will be told to pupils at Sunnydale School, Shildon, was one of thousands of soldiers to perish on the battlefields of the Somme in France, in September 1916.
He was killed by shellfire shortly after being mentioned in dispatches for his part in a trench raid.
His grandson, former art teacher Bernard Condon, of Northallerton, North Yorkshire, is taking war artefacts and weaponry to the school to illustrate his talk.
He said: "About 15 years ago, my younger brother and I decided we would find out more about our grandfathers, neither of whom came back from the First World War.
"My brother at the time was in the Army Intelligence Corps and was very good at finding things out."
The pair discovered where James Condon was buried, at a military cemetery at Corbie, northern France.
"As a result we visited his grave, he said.
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