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Passchendaele and Polygon Wood

April 30, 2019 Garry Chapman

This morning, while we were still in Ypres, we drove just a few kilometres to visit the Passchendaele Museum and Memorial Park. The Battle of

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Last Post

April 29, 2019 Garry Chapman

Every evening at 8pm, dating back to the late 1920s, the Last Post has been played at the Menin Gate memorial, commemorating those Commonwealth soldiers

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Tyne Cot

April 29, 2019 Garry Chapman

This afternoon we visited Tyne Cot, the world’s largest Commonwealth war graves cemetery. On the short drive from Ypres, we passed the sites of several

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Ypres

April 29, 2019 Garry Chapman

This morning, Rod drove us about 70km in our hire car to Ypres. Ypres, or Ieper as the Belgians spell it, was a medieval town

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