Keighley people with family members buried in or commemorated on the First World War battlefields of France and Belgium have been asked to get in touch with a local secondary school.

Holy Family Catholic School is organising its annual trip to Ypres and the Somme, which will see about 30 year nine and ten pupils travel with four adult supervisors on January 31.

The pupils and staff would like to visit the graves and commemorative plaques of people from the Keighley area who were killed in the First World War and pay their respects on behalf of their descendants.

They are keen to hear from people able to supply the name, regiment and date of death of a relative who died on the Western Front, and who would like the pupils to visit their final resting place.

People can contact Holy Family head of history, Emma McConaghy, via the school on 01535 210212 or e-mail hfcschool@ holyfamily.ngfl.ac.uk.

Ms McConaghy, who will travel with the pupils alongside deputy head Pete Booth and former Holy Family teachers Phil Lynch and Michael Devlin, said: “The trip is part of the year nine curriculum and complements the pupils’ studies of warfare through time, which includes an in-depth look at the First and Second World Wars.

“For us this trip is a massive part of what the history department does and it also fits into the Catholic ethos of the school.

“It raises some poignant questions about war and gives the pupils an appreciation of the enormity and scale of the First World War. They are always humbled by it and do come back a little bit different.”

She added that the trip had been running for about a decade.

The pupils will take part in the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate, where they will deliver a reading and lay a wreath.

As well as visiting the graves of Commonwealth and Allied troops, they will see the German war cemetery of Langemark, in West Flanders, where more than 44,000 soldiers are buried.