Ypres WW1 sites
- JR
- Jul 23, 2018
- 1 min read
Ypres in Belgium where the Last Post is sounded every evening at 8 PM. The camp site Jeugdstadion is only 15 minutes walk from the centre of town. Visited the Menin Gate and the Flanders Fields museum.
Very hot over 30c in the shade.
We went in for the 8 pm sounding of the Last Post ceremony by the fire brigade as the have now done over 31000 times since 1929. Also a School band played as well and the children from the school placed wreaths on the steps of the gate.
The Menem Gate The Cloth Hall From the Bell tower Cloth Hall Last Post Air Cadets
We cycled 45km on The Peace route on our tandem visiting Hoogre Crater, Passendale Museum & Tyne Cot Cemetery.
Cheshire Farm Cemetery Hooge Crater Museum Passendale Museum Tyne Cot Cemetery Tyne Cot Cemetery Tyne Cot Cemetery
The Bluff and ComingWorldRemeberMe (CWRM.be). 50.813978, 2.919663
The Egg 600,000 dog tags 600,000 body's The 600,000 dead German lines British Lines
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