The worst part of the show is that it makes such an awful mess, it is not clean like a bullet. The gathering up of the remains is very beastly and some of our men feel it very badly indeed.
DAY 2
We visited Essex Farm Cemetery near Ypres. It was here that the soldier poet John McRae wrote 'In Flanders Fields'. One of the youngest soldiers to die in the war is buried here. His name is Valentine John Strudwick and he was 15 years old
We are told that we are to go back from where we came from and take over the line of trenches held by the 1st Batt, so we are not yet for Ypres, which is fine as the place is an absolute inferno. Eric Wreford Brown, August 28th, 1915
We visited the 'In Flanders Fields' Museum in Ypres and then walked to the Menin Gate where a number of our group found the names of relatives recorded
Our trenches have high parapets about 5 feet high, as then we don't have to dig down so deep and live in water. The enemy is anything from 50 to 200 yards away. Claude Wreford Brown, March 9th, 1915
Visiting the preserved trenches at Hill 62 it was easy to appreciate what life must have been like living and fighting in them CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON DAY 2
