Menin Gate WW1 Memorial in Ypres; the names of soldiers whose bodies were never located, are listed on the walls of this Memorial - too many to count ...... very sad.
The 'Cloth Building', Ypres, Belgium .... very ornate and very beautiful.
The salesman at one of Belgium's chocolate stores - Death by Chocolate!!!!
One of the chocolate consumer's in Ypres.
Tyne Cot Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth cemetery in the world. It is located near Passchendaele.
During all of the Remembrance Ceremonies at the various cemeteries we visited across Europe, a wreath such as this one was left to honour the fallen Glens.
John, 'hanging out' of our hotel room balcony in Knokke Heist, Belgium.The Glens were here in Belgium at the end of October, early Novemhber 1944.
The Hotel Prins Boudewijn in Knokke Heist, Belgium - where we stayed.
Menin Gate WW1 Memorial in Ypres; the names of soldiers whose bodies were never located, are listed on the walls of this Memorial - too many to count ...... very sad.
The 'Cloth Building', Ypres, Belgium .... very ornate and very beautiful.
The salesman at one of Belgium's chocolate stores - Death by Chocolate!!!!
One of the chocolate consumer's in Ypres.
Tyne Cot Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth cemetery in the world. It is located near Passchendaele.
During all of the Remembrance Ceremonies at the various cemeteries we visited across Europe, a wreath such as this one was left to honour the fallen Glens.
John, 'hanging out' of our hotel room balcony in Knokke Heist, Belgium.The Glens were here in Belgium at the end of October, early Novemhber 1944.
The Hotel Prins Boudewijn in Knokke Heist, Belgium - where we stayed.
1 comment:
the cloth building intrigued me. read on Wikipedia that it was a mercantile building, ergo 'cloth', and that it had to be reconstructed stone/brick by stone/brick after the war..
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