The Great War 1914 -1918
Battlefields of France and Flanders

The Somme and Vimy Ridge

Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland memorial park
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Thiepval Anglo-French Memorial.

Thiepval Memorial is the largest British Memorial to the missing in the world and it contains the names of 73,357 men, whose bodies were never recovered . 

Ulster Tower

 The Somme stands on the old German front line and it is a replica of  Helen’s Tower in Co Down and where the Ulster Division trained, before going to France. It was the 1st  official memorial to be erected on the Western Front and was dedicated on 19/11/1921.

Vimy Ridge:

A vital part of the German defence system captured by the Canadians in April 1917 Vimy Ridge Canadian Memorial is in memory of the 66,000 Canadians, who lost their lives, fighting in WWI.
 

 Passendale Museum at
Zonnebeke1917

Part under construction, But still has plenty to seePassendale Museum at Zonnebeke

Tyne Cot Cemetery:

The largest British war cemetery in the world.

Ypres: 

Last post ceremany at the Menin  
Menin Gate – Memorial to the Missing in Ypres with 54,900 names on it.

Ypres :   now known as Ieper. 

devastated during the war but know beautifully restored.

Essex Farm – where John MacRae wrote In Flanders Fields, while he was serving there as a Canadian Medical Officer. The cemetery contains the grave of Pte Valentine Strudwick, aged 15.

Hill 60 – blown up from underneath during the Battle for Messines Ridge. Caterpiller Crater nearby, another mine, now left as a memorial. Hill 60 figures in the film “Beneath Hill 60”.