After visiting the Passchendaele Museum, we went only a short distance down the road to the Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest Commonwealth military cemetery in the world. We arrived at the main entrance of the…
The Memorial Museum of Passchendaele
We went to the Memorial Museum Passchendaele which is in Zonnebeke (Flanders Fields) in Belgium. On our way to the museum, we could see fields of poppies in Flanders fields. We stopped and took a walk…
Essex Farm Cemetery in Belgium
We visited one of the World War One sites that most Canadians can relate to. We went to the Essex Farm Cemetery and Advanced Dressing Station in Belgium. It is also the location where John McCrae…
Fromelles Military Cemetery and Memorial Park
We stopped at the Fromelles Memorial Park to see the Australian monument. The memorial park is situated on the German defensive line which was attacked on 19 July 1916 by the Australian forces at the…
The Trenches and Tunnels of Vimy Ridge
We went to see the trenches and tunnels at the Vimy Memorial Park. Each year the Canadian Government hires Canadian university students as guides for the Memorial Park. We had a very informative Canadian University student from…
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