BELGIAN MILITARY CEMETERY in FLANDERS
The small church in the middle, surrounded by an old graveyard, a few houses circled around, to the left the road ends at a Belgian military cemetery.
There are a few British and Commonwealth graves as well.
If you want to hear the sound of silence, that is the place to go, or so one would think?
The rustling of the poplars and light breeze waves the leaves of the trees and we can hear sparrows twittering nearby, their chorus changes into a chirping frenzy, probably to warn of danger to the birds sunbathing in the soft earth, between the carpet of green and the rows upon rows of headstones, uniform, with the Belgian flag enamelled into the stone, above the names, the age, the rank.
All those young lives curtailed, so much sadness, the silence has descended within me.
Allied Soldiers Killed:
* Belgium: 13,700
* British Empire: 908,000
o Australia: 60,000
o Canada: 55,000
o India: 25,000
o New Zealand: 16,000
o South Africa: 7,000
o United Kingdom: 715,000
* France: 1,240,000
* French Colonies: 114,000
* Greece: 5,000
* Italy: 650,000
* Japan: 300
* Montenegro: 3,000
* Romania: 336,000
* Russia: 1,700,000
* Serbia: 45,000
* United States: 50,600
Central Powers Soldiers Killed:
* Austria-Hungary: 1,200,000
* Bulgaria: 87,500
* Germany: 1,770,000
* Turkey: 325,000
Civilians Killed:
* Austria-Hungary: 300,000
* Belgium: 30,000
* Britain: 31,000
* Bulgaria: 275,000
* France: 40,000
* Germany: 760,000
* Greece: 132,000
* Romania: 275,000
* Russia: 3,000,000
* Serbia: 650,000
* Turkey: 1,000,000
NO MORE WORDS....
Magda, M, (*_*)
magdaindigo.blogspot.com/2007/06/in-shadow-of-flanders-po...
BELGIAN MILITARY CEMETERY in FLANDERS
The small church in the middle, surrounded by an old graveyard, a few houses circled around, to the left the road ends at a Belgian military cemetery.
There are a few British and Commonwealth graves as well.
If you want to hear the sound of silence, that is the place to go, or so one would think?
The rustling of the poplars and light breeze waves the leaves of the trees and we can hear sparrows twittering nearby, their chorus changes into a chirping frenzy, probably to warn of danger to the birds sunbathing in the soft earth, between the carpet of green and the rows upon rows of headstones, uniform, with the Belgian flag enamelled into the stone, above the names, the age, the rank.
All those young lives curtailed, so much sadness, the silence has descended within me.
Allied Soldiers Killed:
* Belgium: 13,700
* British Empire: 908,000
o Australia: 60,000
o Canada: 55,000
o India: 25,000
o New Zealand: 16,000
o South Africa: 7,000
o United Kingdom: 715,000
* France: 1,240,000
* French Colonies: 114,000
* Greece: 5,000
* Italy: 650,000
* Japan: 300
* Montenegro: 3,000
* Romania: 336,000
* Russia: 1,700,000
* Serbia: 45,000
* United States: 50,600
Central Powers Soldiers Killed:
* Austria-Hungary: 1,200,000
* Bulgaria: 87,500
* Germany: 1,770,000
* Turkey: 325,000
Civilians Killed:
* Austria-Hungary: 300,000
* Belgium: 30,000
* Britain: 31,000
* Bulgaria: 275,000
* France: 40,000
* Germany: 760,000
* Greece: 132,000
* Romania: 275,000
* Russia: 3,000,000
* Serbia: 650,000
* Turkey: 1,000,000
NO MORE WORDS....
Magda, M, (*_*)
magdaindigo.blogspot.com/2007/06/in-shadow-of-flanders-po...