Allan & Loren
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Anyone else watching this incredibly moving memorial?
The Ypres Memorial Service (1 Viewer)
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Yes we are ...it is moving isn't it brings back memories of our visit there we are hoping to go again soon. Max's cousin and his wife are there but we haven't spotted them yet.
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brynric
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We often visit Ypres. This shows it in a very different light. (Literally)
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A wonderful tribute and reminder of the horror of the Passchendaele battle. Well worth visiting along with Tyne Cot cemetery.
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BGB
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Have visited Ypres twice for the ceremony and Tyne Cott.....it should be compulsory for all politicians and all schoolkids.....
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We attended the ceremony at Ypres on the 100th anniversary
of the battle of Ypres in August 2015. And a part of every ceremony was a story of a soldier who died in the battle. The one the night we attended was about a 24 year old army officer
who had been in command of his troops for three hard fought months.And he was due a two week leave,so was handing over to another officer when he was shot through the neck and killed by a German sniper!
It was very emotional,and I would say you would not attend a ceremony there without getting a tear in your eye!
of the battle of Ypres in August 2015. And a part of every ceremony was a story of a soldier who died in the battle. The one the night we attended was about a 24 year old army officer
who had been in command of his troops for three hard fought months.And he was due a two week leave,so was handing over to another officer when he was shot through the neck and killed by a German sniper!
It was very emotional,and I would say you would not attend a ceremony there without getting a tear in your eye!
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when we visited last year we lade a reth at the menine gate both my shelf and jay my grate uncle is on one of the panels my grandfather was a stretcher barer in the first war and then worked with the imperial war graves till 1925
burring the dead and recovering the remanes for identification and burial
he then continued working in the UK Scotland tending and looking after military burials in grave yards all over Scotland
he returned after ww 2 to help prepare the war damage and bury the dead of ww 2 till 1952
he never Spock of what he done and I walk in his footsteps every time I got to the Flanders aria
bill
burring the dead and recovering the remanes for identification and burial
he then continued working in the UK Scotland tending and looking after military burials in grave yards all over Scotland
he returned after ww 2 to help prepare the war damage and bury the dead of ww 2 till 1952
he never Spock of what he done and I walk in his footsteps every time I got to the Flanders aria
bill
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