Ypres

Four Boarders from Bowen at the Menin Gate, indicating the name of Andrew Cameron Kneath, a boarder from Bowen who was killed in action in 1916




An early morning jog to start the day before a full day of WW1 history per kind (and by the end of the day, painful) favour of Stevo, really brought the enormity of the human devastation that resulted from the Great War. Traveling through France and into Belgium we visited Grammar War graves at Villers Bretonneux and a number on WW1 cemeteries along the way. Co-incidentally we encountered the Flemish archeologist who discovered the five most recent Australian soldiers are now interned at the Lone Tree Cemetery. The evening Last Post ceremony at Ypres was really moving as was discovery the names of two ex boarders whose names were amoungst the 62000 remembered on the Menin Gate.