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France - World War 1 Battlefields Tour - Part 2
During our tour we came across very few crowds as it is early in the year. However, our last day took us into Belgium to Ypres and there they all were!!!
Each night at 8 pm the Last Post is played under this arch with an appropriate ceremony accompanying it. It so happened to be the Australian Army doing a wreath laying. We had seen a staff car on our journeying and recognised the Aussie Army uniform and there they were again. Very moving experience if a little over crowded. This happens every single night and has since 1928!
Ypres is a beautiful town and we spent a great deal of time in one particular chocolate shop!
Each night at 8 pm the Last Post is played under this arch with an appropriate ceremony accompanying it. It so happened to be the Australian Army doing a wreath laying. We had seen a staff car on our journeying and recognised the Aussie Army uniform and there they were again. Very moving experience if a little over crowded. This happens every single night and has since 1928!
Ypres is a beautiful town and we spent a great deal of time in one particular chocolate shop!
A memorial to where the war was stopped on Christmas Day for a game of soccer
The PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL commemorates more than 11,000 servicemen of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in this sector during the First World War and have no known grave.
Bedford House Cemetery near Ypres
There are 5,139 Commonwealth casualties from the First World War buried in the site of Bedford House Cemetery. Of these casualties 2,194 are identified burials. Special memorials commemorate those Servicemen who are believed to be buried here but their marked graves were destroyed and could not be found.
There are 5,139 Commonwealth casualties from the First World War buried in the site of Bedford House Cemetery. Of these casualties 2,194 are identified burials. Special memorials commemorate those Servicemen who are believed to be buried here but their marked graves were destroyed and could not be found.
Tyne Cot Cemetery
The largest British war cemetery in the world, Tyne Cot CWGC Cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker. 11,908 graves are registered within Tyne Cot, the sheer number of graves make it difficult to take in.
Of this total 70% are unknown. On the wall at the back of the cemetery are the names of 34,927 soldiers who have no known grave and died from August 1917 to the end of the war - a continuation of the names inscribed on the Menin Gate.
The largest British war cemetery in the world, Tyne Cot CWGC Cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker. 11,908 graves are registered within Tyne Cot, the sheer number of graves make it difficult to take in.
Of this total 70% are unknown. On the wall at the back of the cemetery are the names of 34,927 soldiers who have no known grave and died from August 1917 to the end of the war - a continuation of the names inscribed on the Menin Gate.
The town of Ypres in Belgium, a very busy visitor destination
The Cloth Hall is a large medieval commercial building, in Ypres. It was one of the largest commercial buildings of the Middle Ages, when it served as the main market and warehouse for the Flemish city's prosperous cloth industry. The original structure, erected mainly in the 13th century and completed 1304, lay in ruins after artillery fire devastated Ypres in WW1. Between 1933 and 1967, the hall was meticulously reconstructed to its prewar condition.
Menin Gate
