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Tynecote cemetry

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By *iamondsmiles. OP   Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Has anyone been

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Is that the war graves cemetary?

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By *otGeorgeClooneyMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France

Yes; several times; what do you want to know?

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By *iamondsmiles. OP   Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire


"Is that the war graves cemetary?"
yes. Was just wandering how peoples emotions where while there

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By *iamondsmiles. OP   Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire


"Yes; several times; what do you want to know?"
how you felt

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over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not to Tyne Cot but to Flanders Fields cemeteries. It's very somber and quiet there, seemed peaceful though.

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By *otGeorgeClooneyMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Been a cpl of times. was there last year and now has a visitor centre.

It's very poignant and on a sunny day so peaceful with a sense of tranquility.

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France

I have been to many of the WW1 ( and WW2) cemeteries .

They are extremely moving.

Also they all have a beautiful aura of calm, and peace; very fitting for the last resting place of young men who died in such horrific ways.

Thiepval is also moving; particularly the great arch memorial; where are inscribed the names of more than 70,000 men who were never found .

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By *iamondsmiles. OP   Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire


"Not to Tyne Cot but to Flanders Fields cemeteries. It's very somber and quiet there, seemed peaceful though. "
in flanders fields the poppeies blow

Between the crosses row by row

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France

I should add; I have 3 family members/ ancestors in various Commonwealth War graves , and two whose names are on the Theipval memorial .

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France


"Not to Tyne Cot but to Flanders Fields cemeteries. It's very somber and quiet there, seemed peaceful though. in flanders fields the poppeies blow

Between the crosses row by row"

"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."

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By *iamondsmiles. OP   Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire


"Not to Tyne Cot but to Flanders Fields cemeteries. It's very somber and quiet there, seemed peaceful though. in flanders fields the poppeies blow

Between the crosses row by row

"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."

"
i spend a lot of time in flanders but only once has it been timed when the poppy fields are in full bloom going down from gent to ypes

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

Tyne cot is a peaceful place and the visitors centre is moving too..

Langemark is not far and we always pay our respects there also..

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By *enard ArgenteMan
over a year ago

London and France

One of the most moving places is at Serre; where on the first day of the Somme offensive; 4 of the "Pals" battalions ( Sheffields, Accringtons, Leeds and Bradfords) went "over the top" and were mown down before they had got more than a few hundred yards.

There are memorials there, and the cemeteries in the fields where the lads are buried almost where they fell.

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By *otGeorgeClooneyMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Recommend the in Flanders field museum in Ypres.

Always big crowds at the Menhin gate ceremony.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I have been to many of the WW1 ( and WW2) cemeteries .

They are extremely moving.

Also they all have a beautiful aura of calm, and peace; very fitting for the last resting place of young men who died in such horrific ways.

Thiepval is also moving; particularly the great arch memorial; where are inscribed the names of more than 70,000 men who were never found .

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+1 for Thiepval. Also the Newfoundlanders park. The German one with the Thousands of black crosses all with around 4 people in each grave. Crosses as far as you can see. Most touching i found was a very small cemetery where the remains of a battalion that had been sent in waves to take a town. They didn't know it was defended by machine gun. And they all died in the same place. Each wave.

Word goes out to the Chinese cemetry though. Basically starved to death as the British didn't really know what to feed them.

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By *iamondsmiles. OP   Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire


"Recommend the in Flanders field museum in Ypres.

Always big crowds at the Menhin gate ceremony. "
when did you last go to the museum? I preferred it how it was but thats just me as i dont like all the interactive stuff. But i can see why everyone else would

18 months they took to renivate that museum

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By *otGeorgeClooneyMan
over a year ago

Edinburgh

I was last there in July last year.

The wee film show of the field hospital is very moving and thought provoking.

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By *iamondsmiles. OP   Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire


"I was last there in July last year.

The wee film show of the field hospital is very moving and thought provoking. "
its about 18 months since i last went only been once since its all been changes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not been there, visited two American ones.

Didn't think much until I read the names and dates. Started crying, below my feet is a father/mother, son/daughter, brother/sister, cousin, best friend, fiancé, lover..

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By *oyce69Man
over a year ago

Driffield

Need to go to pay my respects to two g/uncles, one at Vimy and one at Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps. and also to all the other brave men from all sides.

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By *nd-DCouple
over a year ago

portsmouth

We went to tynecot last year. It was peaceful and very humbling .

Made us realise how lucky we are to be alive now , them poor souls were only young and went through hell so we can live free .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p020pjsf

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By *luezuluMan
over a year ago

Suffolk

Hard to describe the feeling. A sense of pride, loss, woeful waste of men, sadness.

When we were there, I didn't think I would ever have that feeling ever again, but we went to listen to the last post at Menin gate in the evening, I'm not ashamed to say, I cried that night

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