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In Flanders Fields: John McCrae | Peter D Smith | Belgium, Flanders, Ypres

The Germans shipped their dead back home to the fatherland for burial, or at least most of them, for one ossuary near Ypres contains the bones of 24,000 German soldiers

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Passchendaele to the Somme | Rebecca Ford | Belgium, Flanders, Ypres

Apparently after the battle Haig's Chief of Staff visited the front and burst into tears crying "Good God, did we really send men to fight in that?"

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Walking the Western Front | Rebecca Ford | Belgium, Flanders, Ypres

The countryside in France and Flanders is still recovering from the fighting. Every year, in what is known as the Iron Harvest, farmers dig up thousands of tons of old shells and gas canisters

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