Last Monday, History 30 students of the Swift Current Comprehensive High School were honoured for their Lest We Forget presentations by the Regiment of Montreal. 

The assignment given to them by history teacher Chris Garner, was to focus on a single soldier from the Black Watch and create a narrative of his life.   

"There's a lot of critical thinking, research, and creativity that goes into it," Garner said.  

Brandon Blatz, a student in History 30 at the Swift Current Comprehensive High School, said each student researched a different soldier to present to their peers in a paper.  

To give their assigned lost soldier his voice back, they had to dig deep into the Files of the Fallen Soldiers and the War Diaries. 

Rachel Argue, a student who took part in this assignment, described it as incredibly fascinating. 

"You learn every single aspect of this person's life and get to know them as you go through their files," she reflected. 

Final papers consisted of details as intimate as where the soldier was born and what his hobbies were, to his firsthand experience of the war and how it affected him.

Word of this exceptional project made its way to the Regiment of Montreal, and they learned the magnitude of what the high schoolers had put together.  They presented the classes with a letter, a copy of Red Hackle magazine, and the Red Hackle itself, to honour them for their work in bringing back to life the stories of fallen soldiers. 

A select few of the final projects have been singled out and will be sent to the Regiment for their archivist to keep, as a way to ensure these once-forgotten stories don't disappear.