John McCrae Site

A very important place.

A relatively small cemetery - but immaculately kept as all the cemeteries are. It is quite hard to grasp that this was a place where injured soldiers were taken to for treatment. Of course this has t...

Wow

It is worth going you will get a sense of sadness but pride for the soldiers , and the poem is worth reading is the place it was written

Flanders Fields author

This is an interesting place by the canal which was continuously fought over, with concrete shelters and a memorial to John McCrea who wrote the enduring poem about the fallen in Flanders.

Unbelievable conditions.

The site and remains of the dugouts, dug into the bank of the nearby canal. It was regularly shelled by the Germans, was originally constructed of sand bags and timber but was later strengthened with...

The bunkers are not very big

It shows you what condition the first aider and doctors had to work in, even this visit was not very nice inside the bunkers.