This collection of photos are from the last few weeks and are all to do with remembrance of the wars of past and present. The first few photos are from our day trip to Ypres in Belgium to see the trenches and Cemeteries from World War 1.
There are also photos from The Remembrance parade in our local village of Liss in Hampshire that took place on the 9th of November.
Finally some of you regulars may have notice that my site hasn’t been updated for a few weeks. This is because a few weeks ago my Dad passed away. As a small tribute to him there are a few pictures of his final journey and resting place.
This is another picture of the trenches. It’s hard to believe what went on here and something that I think is how different it looks now to what it look like in 1914.
This is one of the trees that were damage all those years ago and now it's a place where many put their remembrance cross.
This is the memorial to the Canadian troops who played their part in World War 1.
One of the Maple trees that stand in the memorial grounds paying tribute to those Canadian soldiers.
This is The Tyne Cot Cemetery near Ypres; this is the largest commonwealth war cemetery in the world, for any war.
In the middle of all the head stones stands the memorial called “Cross of Sacrifice” which was built on top of a German pill box.
This is looking back towards the entrance gate, all those names either on the walls or on the head stones, you can’t help but be moved, I certainly was.
The Menin Gate Memorial to the missing is on the Eastern exit of the town and is a memorial to 54,896 soldiers without graves. Every night at 8pm they close the road and the buglers from the Fire Brigade play The Last Post.
Back to England now and our village of Liss. November 9th, the remembrance parade for our village and we went and paid our respects.
This was Victoria’s most important job of the year, taking my Dad to his final resting place and this was the way he had always wanted his final journey to be.
Dad’s final resting place after Victoria had done a fine job in taking him on his final, emotional journey.