Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Flanders, Part 2

These photos are from a place called Vancouver Corner. You can see the Canadian impact everywhere here in Flanders.






Tyne Cot is a massive British Cemetery:






And finally, the Menin Gate.

Every single day since the end of the first war (with the exception of the time of German Occupation during WWII ), the city of Ypres,  the location of 4 major battles during WW1, puts on a ceremony at the British memorial known as the Meningitis Gate. Inside the memorial are the names of every British Unknown Soldier. There are thousands and thousands of names from every corner of the British Empire.

Here'she a bit of the ceremony:





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