Trinity Gardens Primary students research SA war history in lead-up to Anzac Day Trinity Gardens Primary students (from left) Lachie, Alessandra, Eliza, Harry and Lewis with their Anzac Day wreaths. THEY are separated by nearly a century, but Trinity Gardens Primary students now share a bond with soldiers who fought in World War I. Year 6 and 7 students have been researching the history of South Australian soldiers in the lead-up to Anzac Day. Principal Vicki Stokes said "we wanted our children to see that the soldiers who fought in World War I were regular people." "We wanted them to see the contribution these people had made and honour their memory," she said. As part of the project, students chose to research either their family members who served or a South Australian soldier who fought on the Western Front. Using the Australian War Memorial website, the students pieced together the service history of each soldier and their battalion. They then made a poppy commemorating each soldier, which was placed into wreaths. The wreaths will be laid by Ms Stokes during the dawn service at Villers-Bretonneux in northern France where there were 1400 Australians killed or wounded on April 24 and 25, 1918. " (The students) have absolutely risen beyond what I would have expected - it's been really outstanding," Ms Stokes said. I'm very proud of them, and honoured to be part of it. The students said studying the lives of the soldiers had given them more appreciation of Anzac Day. Year 7 student Alessandra, 12, said "it's made me want to go to the dawn service and show my respect." Not just to the soldier I studied, but to all the soldiers who fought for Australia and our way of life. Classmate Eliza, who researched her great-grandfather, Private Samuel Thomas, planned to keep studying Australia's military history. "I didn't know very much about World War I before (this assignment) but now I think it's really important," she said. I'm going to keep finding out more.