In Flanders Fields

[English Bloke]

... Menin Gate, Ypres. The names of soldiers with no known grave are recorded here

54,896 Names; and that's not all of them. There are another 34,959 missing listed on the walls of Tyne Cot Cemetery in Zonnerbeke close by. I also have a relative buried in Tyne Cot who was killed at the third battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) in September 1917.

I have been to Ieper (Ypres) and it's surrounds many times as well as all along the former British Commonwealth, French, US and German front lines, down to Albert (on The Somme) in France.

Niblox is right. It is overwhelming. Destruction and Death on such a scale is unimaginable. It humbles you to stand amidst those sleeping men.

I must go again.

[Dr Mac]

Sobering scenes and needed reflections... appreciate you sharing your journey with us.