passiondale

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A field of poppies Royalty Free Stock Photo

A war memorial, surrounded by rows and rows of soldiers' graves. Two poppy wreaths on the memorial. n fact, it is the Tyne Cot military cemetery, in Belgium, the largest military cemetery in continental Europe. 11'956 soldiers from the First World War are buried in it. On the rear wall are engraved the names of a further 34'957 who were killed in the last year of the war but whose bodies were nev