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 cemetery which contains an arched entranceway with a stone curved wall. when we went inside the cemetery walls we were struck by the magnificence of the cemetery. There was a section of the cemetery with a curved commemorative wall that listed 34,957 names of missing soldiers.
The features of the wall were very stunning and breathtaking. We walked around the wall reading some of the names of the missing soldiers.
There were rows upon rows of white gravestones with beautiful red flowers in bloom planted along the graves. The contrast of the white gravestones and red flowers made it very vibrant.
The cemetery was very large and there was an impressive central monument located in the cemetery.
We walked through the cemetery and read some of the gravestones. There were coins on some of the gravestones as a sign of someone visiting their grave.
The cemetery was very impressive and was a beautiful monument for the Commonwealth fallen soldiers. We were honored to be able to visit the worlds largest Commonwealth cemetery.
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