Monday, 15 June 2026

Life After War

Like Toots three years ago, Lightning has just come back from his much anticipated WWI Battlefields Trip to Belgium. Like Toots he had an excellent time, and the photos below are probably very much like Toots's too!


Day 1: South Lip of Ypres Salient

Pool of Peace

Christmas Day Truce memorial

Black Watch Corner



Bells of Messine

Day Two: The Somme Battlefields


Vimy Ridge

Lochnagar Crater







Newfoundland Park

Day 3: Northern Lip of Ypres Salient


Langemark

Tyne Cot


The iron harvest: unexploded shells found by the farmers

Ypres

Menin Gate




Next up, no doubt, will be Joey!

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