Photos by XHXhussars : on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

Mooie foto, Geert, maar een paar honderd meter verkeerd gepositioneerd (grofweg geschat).

very very nice Joe!

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At the end of the path is the Messines Ridge (New Zealand) MERMORIAL which commemorates over 800 soldiers of the New Zealand Division who died near Messines in 1917 & 1918 and who have no known grave - from the uttermost ends of the earth.

Thanx to Laurence Blinyon

No easy hopes or lies Shall bring us to our goal, But iron sacrifice Of body, will, and soul. There is but one task for all - For each one life to give. Who stands if freedom fall? Who dies if England live?

Rudyard Kipling

They went with songs to the battle, they were young, Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted: They fell with their faces to the foe.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again; They sit no more at familiar tables of home; They have no lot in our labour of the day-time; They sleep beyond England's foam.

I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And whistled early with the lark.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you’ll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust, Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain; As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, To the end, to the end they remain.

Laurence Binyon