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Monthly Archives: February 2018
Day 5 – Part 1: “Our Darkest Hour”
“Our Darkest Hour” – The Centennial Commemorations of the Battle of Passchendaele, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium For the past 4 years the world has been commemorating the events of World War I (WWI) and New Zealand has been no … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, Flanders
Tagged 12th October 1917, centenary, horror, Last Post, New Zealand, Passchendaele, soldiers, Tyne Cot, war, WWI
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SIDE NOTE: The trenches from hell
As I had mentioned in a previous post: My hotel Hotel Ieper Kasteelhof’t Hooghe was located in Hooge about 4 km outside Ypres and I was to discover that the hotel was actually on the site of the old stable … Continue reading
Day 4 – Part 2: Ypres & The Menin Gate
Having returned from Messines Ridge where I spent the morning, I decided to spend the rest of the day having a look around Ypres (Ieper) before the ceremony in the evening at the Menin Gate. Now Ypres was the arrival … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, Flanders
Tagged ANZAC, Cloth Hall, From the uttermost ends of the earth, Kiwis, Last Post, Menin Gate, New Zealand, Waka, WWI, Ypres
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