Armistice

Ruby, my husband and I went with some friends to Ypres last year on a Shearing's tour. If you ever get the chance you'll never regret it. Both the driver and his commentator gave us such a roller-coaster of emotions that we will never forget. We went to several small cemeteries, other places such as the Canadian one at Vimy Ridge, and one that remembered all the animals that were used during WW1. When we went to Tyne Cot cemetery it was the only time that I shed some tears. Everything before that I kept inside, but to actually see for myself the almost endless avenues of white gravestones was just too much to bear.

I think this is rather moving.

my Son took us  to France last year to visit the Somme battlefields and the remembrance cemeteries and I have to agree it was very moving to see the graves of so many young men needlessly slaughtered   I'm very pleased  you reminded me Goosegirl about Shering's battlefield tours I'm going to get in touch with Shering's asap to see if I can book up for next year for Ypres


i would like to visit Ypres as my uncle Tom was fighting there and although wounded twice in battle he was shipped back to England and after he recovered he returned to the front and was one of those fortunate to  actually returned to tell the tale but he never spoke of the war



several years ago i was aproached by a son of one of Toms palls who was writing a book of these palls and the comradeship  they obviously had in those dark times in the trenches I'm not going to say anymore encase you  purchase the book called THE TIGERS TALE  by Richard J. Blood [www.reprintuk.com] its well worth a reading