Ypres and The somme.

[clydewell]

To Billy, Albert, Harry, and Mike lost somewhere in Belgium & France respectively and to my grandfathers who came through, one seeing active service in WW2

[CDTBell]

RIP All

i will pay my respect for you all next week

What is the song?

RIP All Who Died From 212 (Risca) Squadron Air Training Corps UK

[TheAviationWolf]

Hello,

The song is Dropkick Murphys - Green fields of France

[CDTBell]

thank you

[guardsman101]

i went to all those places, omg i found my relitives there , at that german lamarck grave yard and at the gate ypres on the wall , and they both were on diffrent sides, 1 from ireland and 1 from hungary, so sad, to see them there

[Methylcloroisothiaz1]

is there a video on youtube about the canadians at Ypres?

[CDTBell]

there were no candadians in ypres they were in vimy :)

[Methylcloroisothiaz1]

@CDTBell we had somekind of involvement though

[aimdrummer]

From the places you went, it looks very much like the itinerary of the Leger "All quiet on the Western Front" tour.

Was it?

I did that one, my guide was a historian called Paul Reed (author of Walking the Somme). Absolutely brilliant tour but very moving too.

It stayed with me for a long time.

What really drives home the scale of loss is the cemetaries, so so many of them.

Our party found a live shell in the sunken lane below Hawthorne redoubt mine crater.

[awisden1]

Very moving, more people should go to Ypres and see for themselves.

[AirbusBoeing2008]

I agree my trip opened my eyes to the loss and the somme i could see for myself the mass loss of life thanks for commenting :)

[cutchie24112]

It's always weird going to these things- I recently went to Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp near Berlin and it's a really odd feeling. Good video btw. (Guess who as well!)

[AirbusBoeing2008]

Hi thanks glad you like the video :D