Day: November 6, 2013

I still think these gas masks look rather scary! But then being gassed must have been a traumatic experience too!

The British Artillery is on the left. The German Artillery is on the right.

Wandering round the Hooge Crater War Museum.

The Hooge Crater War Museum – these gas masks look rather scary to me. They also look rather basic compared to the World War 2 ones!

It seems odd to think that trenches like these went on for miles marking the front line! These aren’t original trenches of course, they’ve been rebuilt. With the weather conditions we had today, it was easy to understand why the… Continue Reading →

Lovely weather for a guided tour of the Ypres Battlefield. These are the weather conditions the soldiers in WW1 would have experienced – to very authentic! During the war, there would have been trenches across this landscape.