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Tyne Cot is the largest Commonwealth War Grave in the world. There are almost twelve thousand graves, and in a continuation from the Menin Gate, a further thirty three thousand names of the missing on the surrounding wall. It’s a truly humbling place. There was a school party there on the day we visited and a number of the girls were moved to tears at the sight before them. The area got it’s name after soldiers from the North East of England noticed a likeness between the German bunkers on the skyline and the cottages of their homeland Tyneside. This in time was shortened to Tyne Cot. The weather was unrelenting, and it reached it’s peak whilst we were here. Most of the pictures taken were ruined by fogged up or rain spattered lenses. Lance’s video camera even packed up altogether until it was rested and dried out. |
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