Today we went out onto the Ypres salient and saw a number of battlefields and cemeteries around Passchendaele. Our first stop was to look at one of the craters near Hill 60.
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| Bomb crater near Hill 60 |
Then off to Tyne Cot cemetery, one of the largest cemeteries on the Western Front....
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| Tyne Cot Cemetery
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| Buttes Cemetery NZ memorial to the Missing in the background |
This afternoon we stopped at Langemark German Cemetery. Architecture is very different, grim and dark. The Belgians were very specific on the layout etc. the graves stones are laid flat to reinforce the fact that the Germans lost the war.
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| Langemark German Cemetery - statues |
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| German graves - usually 4 per grave |
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| German headstones and crosses |
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