Armistice trip minisite

   

West Lancashire Explorer Scouts

Photo Gallery 2004

Here's a short selection of the areas we visited over the 5 days (click for a larger image):
Inside St Georges Chapel, Ypres. The West Lancs contingent in the Poppy Parade The youngest soldier that we found on our trip. The german cemetry at Langmark
The Poziers cemetry The Poziers cemetry Dave Ridout at the resting place of one of his relatives. One of the hundreds of cemetries in the region
The allied Theival Memorial The plaque at Arras where the captured resistance workers were executed. Inside a trench at Sanctuary wood.
Tynecot Cemetry, the biggest in Europe. A fallen Lancashire soldier. St Georges Chapel A message we found on a wreath that was left at Tynecot.
The Menin Gate itelf.
A message for visitors inside St Georges Chapel
crosses left on the rotting stump of a shell-blasted tree ; one of the few surviving at Sanctuary Wood.