Ypres, Belgium

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So as not to distract from the Anzac thread I have started a new thread.

Every night at the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium, the last post is played to remember all those that lost their lives in the first world war.

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/events/menin-gate-last-post-ceremony.htm

There are many monuments and memorials on the Ypres Salient battlefields. They range in size from official monuments commemorating thousands of people missing in action and who have no known grave to private memorials dedicated to individuals or to military units. Some are simply places or scars on the landscape from the battles which have been preserved on the old battlefields. Some have been put up to mark a particular event.
This page lists and locates the monuments to be found on the Ypres Salient battlefields.

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/places/ypres-salient-monuments.htm
 

I have visited Ypres many times and never fail to be moved by the daily ceremony at the Menin Gate. My grandfather's regiment (6th. Scottish rifles) is one of the regiments remembered on the monument. The Flanders Field museum is one of the 'must see' museums of the world.

Ironically and in start contrast, virtually where that photo of Menin Gate must have been taken from is, IMO, the best chocolate shop in Ypres. It's called t'Himelrijk (the heavenly place).

Near to Ypres is the village of Kemmel which also has many connections to WW1. The photo is of a WW1 first aid post dug into sloping ground.

bunker.jpg
 
My youngest son. his wife and 9 month old baby live in the Flanders region, as yet I haven't been to Ypres on my visits there.

Capt Lightning, all chocolate shops are good in Belgium.:bigwink:

Thanks for photos posted.:)
 
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