Today’s excursion took us to the area around Ieper. We visited New Irish Farm Cemetery, a WW1 cemetery where a distant cousin of mine (the known relative who died in WW1) is buried. It was very sobering to stand amongst hundreds of white headstones, over half of which simply read “A soldier of the Great War. Known unto to God” and think that most of the men there were younger than I am now, and that this particular cemetery is one of hundreds along the Western Front. We also visited the Menin Gate in Ieper before heading off to Paris.
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