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A few weeks ago I went to Northern France and Belgium to do a personal photo project on the Ypres and Vimy Ridge battle fields. It was my first time there and a rather emotional journey it was too. I have written an article on my blog with some of the images. I hope you take the time to read it as I'm proud of the images I took and even prouder of the soldiers who are lying forever in the fields of Belgium and France, many of them thousands of miles away from home.

You can see the blog at http://h2oimages.wordpress.com/
http://h2oimages.wordpress.com/
There's also a bigger gallery on my website at: http://www.gavinparsons.co.uk/pages/worldwarone.html
 
I went there a couple of years ago with my brother and my son. Yes it is a very moving experience, and perhaps one every person on the planet should take, hopefully it might dissuade them from future conflicts. I made a short video of the shots from my trip.
 
Very interesting and moving Gavin, I have looked at your Blog and Website Pictures, both tell the story very well.

I have been to the area myself and it is such an experience, so moving and sad, especially Tyne Cott, Ypres and the Last Post at the Menin Gate, is something I will never forget.

Regards Paul
 
I'm heading there with work early next year, hope to get a couple of weekends to explore and take photos.
 
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There's not a lot of the actual war left to see in many places. Depending on where you are going, I suggest getting a good guide book as most of the sites are lited. I also walked to my local war memorial and put the names in there into the Commonwealth War Graves Commission websites and then went to find their graves (or names on memorials).

My next trip will be to the Somme and I have a few more cemeteries to visit for the men who gave their lives from my village.

To put the war into perspective I would urge you to visit the 'In Flanders Fields' museum in Ypres.
 
I've bought a copy of Major Holt's battlefield guide to Ypres. My ancestors were in the Northumberland Fusiliers who fought near Tyne Cot.

I hope to find a guide for 1 day.
 
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