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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 ...
Close to home
... then continually shoot mortars at them, they will never be able to begin to imagine what war was like.
Afterwards we headed off to Polygon Wood where Smythe #4 won a bar to his Military Cross. Steve went for a long walk through the woods so Margaret and I had a cup of tea in Johan Vandewalle's Anzac Rest cafe. Johan helped excavate and identify the Zonnebeke Five ...
In Flanders Fields the poppies grow..
... waving table tennis rackets, 4 of which riding a quad bike and one scooting alongside on a childs scooter. A little bit unusual and out of place. They were seen shortly after knocking back beers in the pub, clearly a stag do of some kind.
Our trip to the In Flanders Fields museum was short lived as it is undergoing renovation until July. Damnit. Typical. We did however pick up a leaflet for another museum in a local town called the Paschendale ...
Day 79 - Ypres
... commonwealth military cemetery in Europe and it truly does take your breath away with its sheer size. The names of the New Zealanders killed, but who have no known grave are recorded here on a New Zealand memorial (rather than on the Menin Gate memorial). We also wandered through the many rows of headstones and found quite a few New Zealanders amongst them.
It was time for a bit of a reprieve from WWI, so we returned to the B&B for ...
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