Where is Flanders Fields?
Flanders Fields refers to Flanders in Belgium’s. It comes from the famous poem by John McCrae More specially it refers to the front line going from the Belgian coast via the Yser (Belgian Army) to Ypres (Ieper in Flemish) (British Empire) to the French frontier. For the British people it is especially Ypres, Menin (Menen) and Passendale. There are a lot of cemeteries around these towns where a lot of soldiers are buried. Know and unknown side by side. The unknown soldiers (without a known grave) are mentioned on the Menin Gate (54,896 names and still there was not enough place) and at Tyne Cott cemetery (34,984 names). Since 1928 the Belgian people of Ypres play every evening at 8 pm the last post in memory of these soldiers. This was only interrupted when the Germans in WW2 occupied the town. The evening that the Menin Gate was liberated in 1944 the “Last Post” was played again (even when at other places in the town still was some heavy figthing going on). If you visit Flanders Fields
