| If any one photo by itself can
ever hope to bring home to the viewer the massive numbers of dead involved this
one should. There are 11,962 headstones and 34,888 names of the dead with no
known grave. That's a total of 46,850. |
| The small battlefield
cemetery near Tyne Cot ( a German strongpoint, the block house of which is
now under the Cross of Sacrifice) was expanded after the war and became
the world's largest British military cemetery. 11,962 men lie
here, and a
further 34,888 are commemorated on the rear walls. It is situated on a
gentle slope from which Ypres can be
seen in the distance. |
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| Tyne
Cot Cemetery, 1917. On the right of photo is the ruins of the German
pill box over which now stands the Cross of Sacrifice |
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