"...I died in hell

(they called it Passchendaele) my wound was slight

and I was hobbling back; and then a shell

burst slick upon the duckboards; so I fell

into the bottomless mud, and lost the light"

Siegfied Sassoon


The British and Commonwealth Cemetery at Tyne Cot, near the top of Passchendaele Ridge.

The wall lists the names of the 35,000 dead who have no known grave.

More photographs HERE from a day showing a friend the WWI battlefields around Ieper (Ypres or "Wypers" to the Tommies)

A couple of bottles of steadying beer and some frietjes met stofvlees were definitely required afterwards........