Railway Wood Ieper

This video looks at Railway Wood, about 2km east of Ieper, Belgium.
On the site sits the 177th Tunnelling Co Memorial and the smallest CWGC site in the country.
Beside it is a memorial to the members of the Liverpool Scottish, partly constructed with the keystone from the Regiment's former office in England.
The video ends with a very brief look in the mine crater littered forest beside the memorials (I seem a bit rushed because I think I was trespassing on private land!).

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Education

Tags:

• railway
• wood
• liverpool
• scottish
• ieper
• ypres
• tunnelling