WWI ... # 4

[debris4spike]

Tyne Cott Cemetery is the largest in Ypres, and used for those from the battle of Passchendale.








Yet another cemetery - this one called Hooge Crater



As part of the trip we went to a lot of museums, including Hooge Crater Museum.  Hard to realise how much these show of everyday life.  Every year to this day, farmers still dig up live incendury, and bodies, in field they have used every year since 1919.









The Christmas Truce - famous, for the football match that took place ... and we went to it's location.












This is where Granddad spent much of the battle of Passchendale

Comments

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing these photographs. I've visited these memorials and museums but it's been years. They're a devastating reminder of how many lives were lost in WWI.

[debris4spike]

I have been in the past, but this was an amazing trip just focused on the various families, and their stories. So, very personal

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

Those were all really interesting. Thanks for posting.

[debris4spike]

It was a wonderful trip - I am booked for a WWII trip next Spring already!

[empresspatti.livejournal.com]

You look terrific !

[debris4spike]

Thank you - a huge change, when I stopped cheating the hair colour, and had it cut even shorter ... but I do love the look.