Photo Gallery
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Follow Mark Robson's 2011 journey "In the Footsteps of the Heroes"
Learn more about the men?: See Alkham Heroes (for WWI/II)

Essex Farm Cemetery where John McCrae wrote the poem ‘In Flanders Field’ which inextricably linked the poppy to the battlefields and remembrance and where Edwin Daniels is buried. Edwin, one of four brothers from Alkham, was killed by a shell on 8th June 1916.

James Tapsell laying a poppy spray at the tombstone of Edwin Daniels

German cemetery at Langermarck - The German cemetery was stark in
 comparison with the beautifully maintained commonwealth cemeteries

Sanctuary Woodv - Part of the existing trenches. This is a commercial
 site and the museum can only be described as unusual

Tyne Cot is the biggest Commonwealth military cemetery in the world
where there are graves and names of 35,000 ‘missing’ soldiers.
Here are some the graves at Tyne Cot:

The Canadian Memorial stands in Saint Julien Wood near Langemarck
The photo on the left was taken in 2009. The one on the right was taken in 1934
by the mother of one of the 2009 group who was on a cycling holiday.

Menin Gate, which is an enormous arched entrance to Ypres where the Last Post is sounded every evening at 8.00pm. Soldiers marched through the gate on the way to the front and the names of 54,896 Commonwealth soldiers who died without graves are inscribed on it.