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| Be prepared to be overwhelmed upon arrival at Zonnebeke’s Tyne Cot. With nearly 12,000 buried soldiers, this memorial is the largest Commonwealth cemetery in the world, for any war, a sad claim to fame. Dizzying rows of white gravestones line the grass, overlooking sweeping views of the bucolic countryside. The site’s surrounding wall is a memorial to the missing, bearing the name of nearly 35,000 men from the UK that were never found and presumed dead.Discover the numerous WWI sites and join us in commemorating those who fought in Flanders Fields. | |
| Tyne Cot Cemetery in Zonnebeke is de grootste begraafplaats van de Commonwealth War Graves Commission op het continent, met bijna 12.000 grafstenen. Op de muur achteraan de begraafplaats staan de namen van 34.957 vermiste soldaten gegrift. Zij sneuvelden bij de Slag bij Passchendaele. De begraafplaats is door een 3 km lang wandel- en fietspad verbonden met het Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917. |
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