Ypres

I went to Ypres (Leper) last year and the visit has stayed with ever since.

The Menim Gate contains names on stone panels of around 54,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers who died in the Salient but whose bodies have never been identified or found and that is what struck home with me big time. The Regiments of present and yesteryear and the countries where they came from are all identified on the panels. There is a metal cupboard (inside the right hand archway coming from the town centre) that contains an A-Z directory of the names of the fallen and the panels on which they are to be found and there is also a book of remembrance located inside.

There are two war grave cemeteries, Ypres Reservoir Cemetery and Ramparts Cemetery Lille Gate which are within easy walking distance and both contain the metal cupboards with the directories and remembrance books inside.

R.I.P. to all the fallen.