Where to go? WW1, Ypres etc.

[Enigma]

My nephew and me will visit some of the WW1 area's. Mainly Ypres and coast region.

Which are the must have visited area's, musea's etc?

 

:thanx:

[Tony B]

Ieper be there at 20:00 at the Menin gate for the Last Post. Go about 7 k to Zonnebecke and se ethe museum there, superb repro dug out. Essex Farm Cemetry where the poppy came from for remembrance. Tyne Cot. The Market Square, plenty of good cafes and restraunts.

If you have any time left. try this site. http://www.warmuseums.nl/

[Jessie The Jeep]

Vimy Ridge

 

http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/others/vimy.html

 

and Albert

 

http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/somme/albert.html

[Enigma]

Thanks guys, keep it coming.

[Tony B]

Zonnebecke, and Menin gate.

[Joris]

Don't forget Hill 60, very impressive.

[David Ives]

try this for a good link of the somme tour

http://www.zevisit.com/ZEVISIT/US/FicheCircuit/337-Circuit-of-Remembrance.html

[David Ives]

also visit our adopted soldier

he is buried at red cross corner cemetery

beugny row 11 b 20 the initals are jackson b i

[Enigma]

Thanks guys.

Can't belive I forgot about the Menin gate...

 

If we're at Beugny we'll pay our respects to Jackson.

 

We will remember.

[Joris]

Beugny is rather a long way from Ypres and there is plenty to see in the Ypres area....

[Tony B]

Don't think you'd ever get to see everything there is in the Salient. Take a walk round the walls thats a journey in military history on its own.

[Enigma]

Don't think you'd ever get to see everything there is in the Salient. Take a walk round the walls thats a journey in military history on its own.

 

Just returned, I was surprised by the sheer amount of cemeterys around Ypres.

[poppypiesdad]

Hooge crater cemetery where my great great uncle is buried.

And all of the above it should be in the national curriculum for all school children to visit.

Very sad part of the world to visit .

 

Jamie

 

 

[Tony B]

Is part of the national curriculum, at the wrong time of year you are falling over school kids. Trouble is ask Steve Mc Guire's son Robby. He knows more about the conflict than the teachers.

[Enigma]

Hooge crater cemetery where my great great uncle is buried.

And all of the above it should be in the national curriculum for all school children to visit.

Very sad part of the world to visit .

 

Jamie

 

 

 

Didn't know that.

With all those cemeterys in the area this is the only one I visited.

Sorry I didn't know, would have visited his grave otherwise.

[Enigma]

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?t=14355

For some pics and report.