cemeteries

Ypres Salient: Langemark Cemetery

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(DAY 4)

According to the “Great War” website, The Langemark Cemetery is “one of only four First World War German cemeteries in the Flanders region” and contains over 43,000 dead. Over 20,000 unidentified German bodies were interred in a mass grave. The names of those known to be buried here but not identified, or identified through research later, are inscribed on monuments and tablets.

Source: http://www.greatwar.co.uk/ypres-salient/cemetery-langemark.htm

Ypres Salient: Essex Farm Cemetery

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(DAY 4)

There are dozens of cemeteries in and around Ypres. The largest, Tyn Cot, holds nearly 12,000 dead. The Essex Farm Cemetery is much smaller with 1,200 graves. We visited this cemetery by bicycle after we finished our guided tour. It is immediately next to the John McCrae site.