One Day In The Area Close to Ypres
Brandhoek Cemetery is the place Captain Noel Chavasse is buried. Captain Chavasse is one of merely 3 men to have been awarded Britain's top award for valour, the Victoria Cross. In addition, he was also accorded the Military Cross. I'm currently reading through a book titled "In Foreign Fields" by Dan Collins and it is about troopers who have been accorded medals in Afghanistan and Iraq. When you understand what a soldier was required to achieve so as to be accorded an MC, it makes you understand what a brave man Capt Chavasse was particularly as he was a member of the Royal Medical Corps and never fired a shot throughout the conflict.
My next stop was near to the village of Passchendaele at the biggest British Military Cemetery at Tynecot. About 12,000 soldiers lie buried here. From Tynecot, you're able to see for several miles everywhere across fields and it seems difficult to think about the horror that had been there 90 years ago. The visitors centre provides a historical past of the vicinity and the names of a number of the fallen and missing are sent out restfully over audio speakers.
From Tynecot, I started to head back on the way to Ypres stopping at Hill 61 (Sanctuary Wood) on the way back. There's a compact museum and a few conserved trenches . Throughout my trip, the climate wasn't kind and while it had been nothing like as lousy as conditions would have been all through The Great War, the bottom of the trenches still looked quite awful. It cost a few Euros to get in and this was the first place I started to notice the effects of the notorious mud.
My next supposed stop was the Hooge Crater. As previously in the day, I had a hard time trying to find it but I saw a modest independent museum called the Hooge Crater Museum which had a fascinating assortment of artefacts such as a British Ambulance and a Victoria Cross. My sightseeing for the day was not over as I still had to check out the well known Cloth Hall that was almost ruined (since fully rebuilt) as well as the Last Post ceremony and that is carried out at 8pm each and every night at the Menin Gate. I always find the Last Post really haunting and moving to hear. Soon after it was finished, 2 wreaths were placed by young British troopers and was followed by a recital from Laurence Binyon's "For The Fallen"
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
My next stop was near to the village of Passchendaele at the biggest British Military Cemetery at Tynecot. About 12,000 soldiers lie buried here. From Tynecot, you're able to see for several miles everywhere across fields and it seems difficult to think about the horror that had been there 90 years ago. The visitors centre provides a historical past of the vicinity and the names of a number of the fallen and missing are sent out restfully over audio speakers.
From Tynecot, I started to head back on the way to Ypres stopping at Hill 61 (Sanctuary Wood) on the way back. There's a compact museum and a few conserved trenches . Throughout my trip, the climate wasn't kind and while it had been nothing like as lousy as conditions would have been all through The Great War, the bottom of the trenches still looked quite awful. It cost a few Euros to get in and this was the first place I started to notice the effects of the notorious mud.
My next supposed stop was the Hooge Crater. As previously in the day, I had a hard time trying to find it but I saw a modest independent museum called the Hooge Crater Museum which had a fascinating assortment of artefacts such as a British Ambulance and a Victoria Cross. My sightseeing for the day was not over as I still had to check out the well known Cloth Hall that was almost ruined (since fully rebuilt) as well as the Last Post ceremony and that is carried out at 8pm each and every night at the Menin Gate. I always find the Last Post really haunting and moving to hear. Soon after it was finished, 2 wreaths were placed by young British troopers and was followed by a recital from Laurence Binyon's "For The Fallen"
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
About the Author:
The key part of most visits to Ypres is the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate each night at 8 o'clock.. Also published at One Day In The Area Close to Ypres.
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