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YPRES APR 2005

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Patrick H

#15
April 17, 2005, 12:50:04 PM
Thanks for the pictures Chris.
Although it's only a 2 hour drive from where I live, I'm ashamed to admit I've never been there. To close to home I guess. Got to make up for it one of these days.

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#16
April 17, 2005, 01:07:12 PM
Great pictures.

I visited some of the Battlefields a few years back.
Really awesome places treated with great respect.

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#17
April 17, 2005, 01:24:22 PM
Thanks Chris.
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nev

#18
April 18, 2005, 01:33:33 AM
Thanks for sharing Chris.

BTW I remember a couple of years ago there was a real stink cos the Belgian government wanted to build a motorway right through one of the cemetaries.  What happened with it?
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#19
April 18, 2005, 05:31:25 AM
Very moving. It's hard to imagine the scale of the losses, I suppose only a visit could do that.

One day I will do so.
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#20
April 18, 2005, 11:24:33 PM
IMWFO - During WWII there was some fighting around the Hill 60 cemetry in Ypres during the Dunkirk Rearguard action and there are some bullet holes in the memorial. It must of been truely terryfying to be a young squadie retreating through all those graves of your parent's generation.

During the war although the Germans wouldn't allow the last post to be sounded the graveyards and memorials themeselves were treated with respect by both sides. There were numerous German graveyards in Belgium from WWI at the time (these have since been concentrated on three sites) and Hitler paid his respects at Langemark Cementry on the Ypres salient during his West Front tour in June 1940, having served at Messines which is on the southern side of the Salient. There is only one French cemetry as all the bodies were repatriated to France between 1919 & 1922. This one cemetry contains the graves of those found since. We only missed a British burial by a week.

Ypres was liberated in 1944 by the Plish Armoured Division and the town resumed the Last Post ceremony the very night of liberation whilst fighting was still going on in the town.

Nev - The plan was to build a new Paris Airport on the Somme Battlefields. There were so many complaints from both France & the UK that the Goverment/Region (not sure which) quitely dropped it.

Next year all being well we are going to the Somme - the New Foundland Park Memorial is one of the most moving I have ever seen.

Chris
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#21
April 19, 2005, 12:23:36 PM
QuoteNice to hear of kids actually showing some respect for a change.....
Amen, Brother Toad...
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