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The Poppy Parade
 The
Menin Gate during the 11.00 a.m. Service. Photo taken looking towards the
town of Ypres. [Photo by Andy Walker]
 The
Belgian Navy Cadets from Antwerp. Various Contingents march with the Poppy
Parade. The Belgian Navy Cadets are stalwarts of the parade as are a
British Air Training Corps Contingent from Germany. [Photo by Andy Walker]
 Surrey
Fire and Rescue Contingent on parade at the Menin Gate. Typically the
11.00 a.m. service on the 11th of the 11th is attended by several UK Fire
Brigade Contingents. Devon Fire & Rescue (who provide the band) and
Surrey are amongst the largest of the groups. [Photo by Andy Walker]
 Surrey
Fire and Rescue Contingent. [Photo by Andy Walker]
 Crowds
at the Menin Gate as the service concludes. Typically several thousand now
attend the 11th November remembrance service. It is estimated that well
over a thousand marched with the Poppy Parade. [Photo by Andy Walker]
 The
Menin Gate during the evening Last Post. [Photo by Andy Walker]
The Battlefield Tour
 Ramparts
Cemetery by the Lille Gate - predominately early battlefield burials.
Arguably one of the most emotive cemeteries in the Salient.
 Transport
Farm, Railway Dugouts. David Humberston talks about some of the sportsman
commemorated in this cemetery.
 Canadian
memorial on Hill 62. This was the site of savage fighting in June 1916
when a German attack temporarily captured Observatory Ridge. The Canadian
counterattack re-gained the lost territory
 German
concrete near the Boyau De la Mort (Dodengang) near Dixsmude. This
strongpoint was just within the German lines in a salient on the Western side of
the Yser canal.
 The
big question! What is Teddy up to? This is the picture that's not
supposed to be published!
 The
Kolwitz statues in the German cemetery at Vladsloe near Dixsmude.
 Private
remembrance - a grandfather's grave near Houplines.
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