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Memories of the World Wars
History can bring stories of past events to life. Museums,
cemeteries, battlefields, forts and gun emplacements recapture
the events of two World Wars fought on the fields and in the
towns of North-West Europe. Many families can trace relatives
who bravely lost their lives fighting for their country and it can
be a rewarding, if emotional, experience to visit the burial sites
or the Menin Gate at Ypres where the names of those whose
bodies were never recovered are remembered in perpetuity.
These battlefields are easily visited from Britain and this guide
covers most of the main places of interest in Northern France,
Belgium and Holland. Those wanting to go further back in time
will discover the relics of the day in 1815 when the Duke of
Wellington defeated Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo.
CONTENTS
Conflict in Europe 2
Royal British Legion, Commonwealth War Graves Commission
and Military Vehicles 3
Nord-Pas de Calais 4
Flanders 8
Normandy 12
Holland 18
Champagne-Ardenne 20
The Somme 22
Southern Belgium 26
Motoring information 29
Images: Rex Features
‘In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.’
John McCrae
Canadian Army Medical Corps
8 December 1915
Died in Base Hospital 1918
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