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Belgian Battlefields
... side. Each post represents a day in the life of the cemetery from just before the war in 1914 through to 1921 when the hospital finally closed. On each post there are notches (starting from ground level) up the post - one for each burial in the cemetery. A very moving entry to what is another huge burial place that covers another considerable area of land. Here we saw graves of soldiers of many nations - Aussies, English, Canadian, a few Americans and a section for German soldiers. ...
Row upon row they rest
... what could be described as a quagmire - not hard to imagine how the battlefields would have been. The huge Tyne Cot cemetery can not fail to overwhelm you by its size and beauty. Here lie thousands of soldiers and in addition tens of thousands of names on walls of men who have no known grave ... names of those dead soldiers that could not fit on the walls of the Menin Gate in Ieper. The simple crosses of the French Cemetery and the single stone block at ...
Flanders Field and other random crap
... so humbling I guess to see all the graves and the names. There was one grave of a boy who enlisted when he was 14. He died when he was 15. It was just crazy. The trenches are so small. Hill 60 was interesting because you can still see the massive craters. The ground felt a bit slippery and it wasn’t even wet. I could imagine how insane it would have been when it was rainy. It was weird that there are this memorials ...
Remembering WW-I history.....
... war. Some of the soil in this area is “blue clay”, which is totally impervious to water so that explains why the trenches filled with water so easily. It had rained recently, so the bottom of some of the trenches was a “soup” of mud, so I wasn’t anxious to venture into them although that certainly was possible. The trenches were surrounded by actual shell craters (LOTS of them). The Sanctuary Wood Museum is privately owned by ...
Pleased to be patriotic
... of the horrid time for all involved.. the town itself, the allies..
Walking towards the Menin Gate,.a memorial to the 54,000 plus men with no known grave was a humbling experience.. all these men would equal a small city..all gone ...their names are listed as per country, division,and rank. My great great uncle was easily found.. the Australian section ...
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