Remembrance Sunday will have special significance this year for two Bristol teenagers who have learned more about relatives who died in World War I.

Beth Selfe and Daniel Griffin were two of 40 pupils from St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School who went on a visit to the battlefields in Belgium and France last month.

Daniel, 13, found the name of his great-great-uncle on the Ploegsteert Memorial and Beth, also 13, found the grave of her great-great-great uncle in the huge Tyne Cot cemetery.

Other pupils looked for tributes to some of the 36 old boys of the school who died in World War I whose names are on the St Mary Redcliffe and Temple war memorial.

They also sought out details of other Bristol victims buried at Tyne Cot – some of whom lived close to, or even on the site of, the current school.

The pupils are continuing to make investigations into the school's old boys who died in the war, and are keen to hear from anyone who knows any details of any of the servicemen.

The group, on an annual school trip for Year 9 pupils, laid a wreath during a ceremony at the Menin Gate and visited battlefields and museums to learn more about life and death in the trenches.

Teacher Rick Hatton, one of the leaders of the visit, has a special interest in the conflict as his own grandfather Arthur Lightbody was injured at Ypres and won the Military Medal.

"One of the old boys of the school who died in the war, John Janes, was also awarded the Military Medal, so we are trying to find out more about him," he said.

"We have done some research with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission."

Beth, from Brislington, knew little about her dead relative Frederick Cole, other than that he had been the great-uncle of her grandfather, John Cole, from Bedminster.

"I found out that Frederick had died in 1917, at the age of 36," she said.

"I was so excited when I found his grave in the Tyne Cot cemetery. I couldn't wait to tell my family, Now they want to go out to see it too."

Beth said she found the trip very touching.

"It choked me up a bit. You realise that these are not just stones. They represent people, who all died for this country."

Daniel, from Hanham, found the name of his grandfather's uncle, Charles Samuel Nutt, on the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing, which was known to soldiers as Plug Street.

"My grandad, Bert Griffin, from Yate, knew that Charles was at the Battle of the Somme," said Daniel.

"He was presumed dead. They never actually found his body but two years later his dog tag was found.

"It was quite an experience to think that I am related to him. It was not emotional to find his name, because I never knew him, but he was my great-gran's brother and my grandad's uncle."

Charles was born in Bristol and lived most of his life in Barton Hill. He was a rifleman in the King's Royal Rifle Regiment and was 23 when he was killed.