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THIS week the Queen will travel to Belgian Flanders to attend the Remembrance Ceremony at Tyne Cot cemetery in Passchendaele, where thousands of World War I soldiers are buried. Here MARY BARBER takes a look at the region and its history...
IT'S hard to imagine on a brilliant summer's day that Ypres in Belgian Flanders was ever the site of a pitched battle.See the full content of this document
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Peace of History ; the Battlefields and Beauty of Flanders
Yet this pretty town, known as "Wipers" to the Tommies, was flattened 90 years ago in the First World War. Every year, local treasure hunters wielding metal detectors still dig up about 200 tonnes of ammo from the fields around town.
Thankfully, Ypres' beautiful medieval...See the full content of this document
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