23/11/2020
from mum's computor
Throughout history, War Memorials were erected to commemorate victories in battle, but today’s mem
23/11/2020
from mum's computor
23/11/2020
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The Last Post plays around the the Menin Gate in Ypres Belgium. Every night at 8.00pm (20:00 hours) a moving ceremony takes place under the Menin Gate in Ieper - Ypres.
In military tradition, the Last Post is the bugle call that signifies the end of the day's activities. It is also sounded at military funerals to indicate that the soldier has gone to his final rest and at commemorative services such as Anzac Day and Remembrance Day.
01/05/2019
World War Sights in Ypres, Belgium
rom October 1914 until October 1918 the battlefi eld was barely a few kilometres away from the centre. The trenches had been dug from North to South to form an arc around Ypres. In that famous Ypres Salient no fewer than five bloody battles were fought. In the nineteen twenties more than 150 military cemeteries were built in and around the city and monuments were erected, Menin Gate being the most important. These monuments and cemeteries as well as the rebuilt houses, some of which were faithfully restored, still remind us today of the senselessness of war and of this most tragic period in the history of Ypres.
https://www.thetourexpert.com/countries/visit-belgium-information-guide/city-guides-in-belgium/ypres-tourism-guide/world-war-sights-in-ypres
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29/04/2019
Pictures of the memorial location, Auschwitz in Poland
29/04/2019
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