Monday 29 June 2015

France - Belgium '15 Pt.2

The Menin Gate which bears the inscription: "To The Armies Of the British Empire Who Stood Here From 1914 To 1918 And To Those Of Their Dead












The Essex Farm Cemetery tour starts from this Sword of Remembrance























Introduction to the Passchendaele Museum as it's surrounded by several flags.  The Passchendaele museum tour starts here
























Some of the flags surrounding the Passchendaele museum that I took before my battery run out


We passed by 'The Brooding Soldier' but I was missed the chance of capturing a photo. The memorial pays tribute to the Canadian soldiers lost during the War
Tyne Cot Military cemetery tour starts here



One of the German graves in the Tyne Cot cemetery














The Tyne Cot Military Cemetery from a distance
The Langemark German cemetery tour starts here

Places that have been involved in gas attacks 













The Poperinge Death Cells tour starts here




These drawings were being glass as they were some of the drawings drawn by soldiers on their last night before being executed the next day




This was truly magnificent as it depicted a hologram of a 'would have been convinced soldier' drawing on the wall on his last night








Talbot House tour starts here







Some of the painting drawn for Talbot House





















An old cigarette tin captured by Minnie

























Sanctuary Wood tour starts here...I think this is the right picture








A Welsh memorial that we drove past


Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery tour starts here




Taken by Bubs
















Edited by Minnie










Bubs, Minnie and I by Glend


In Flanders Field Museum tour starts here









At the top of the museum with Bubs and Glend


















A work in progress by Mehdi-Georges Lahlou






Some Menin Gate tributes




The Thiepval Memorial tour starts here










Where the Germans stood whilst the British were at a disadvantage as they were on low ground














The Lochnagar Crater tour starts here










Pte George Nugent who went missing 1st July 1916 and later found in this spot, 31st October 1998


A plaque around the Lochnagar Crater




I'm sponsoring a plaque around the walkway in memory of a veteran of the Great War -  saying "remembered by Sydenham and Forest Hill School" on my 18th birthday, 4th September, 2015.

Will you please sponsor a veteran - www.lochnagarcrater.org