Royal Engineers Memorial, Railway Wood, Ypres
Posted in Trips, War Graves, War Memorials at 10:00 on 17 November 2016
From the Menin Road we could see just on the ridge of a hill a Commonwealth War Graves Cross of Sacrifice. A signpost pointed up a very minor road to RE Memorial Railway Wood. We had to make the last bit on foot – past several Remembrance Trees. The line had shifted up a bit from the Menin Road by 1915.
It was now such a peaceful setting with cows grazing hard by the memorial:-
Royal Engineers Memorial, Railway Wood, Ypres:-
Unless there are at least forty graves a Commonwealth War Cemetery will not have a Cross of Sacrifice. This memorial commemorates only twelve men but the graves are not individually marked, hence the cross.
Royal Engineers Memorial, Railway Wood, Ypres, from Entrance:-
Royal Engineers Memorial, Railway Wood, Inscription 1, 177th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers:-
Royal Engineers Memorial, Railway Wood, Inscription 2, six names:-
Royal Engineers Memorial, Railway Wood, Inscription 3, a further six names:-
View Towards Ypres from Royal Engineers Memorial, Railway Wood:-
Crater, Railway Wood, Ypres, Royal Engineers Memorial in background:-
Tags: Commonwealth War Graves, Cross of Sacrifice, First World War, Railway Wood, Royal Engineers Memorial, the Great War, World War1, WW1, WWI, Ypres
Denis Cullinan
17 November 2016 at 21:06
Vary sad business. My mother’s uncle was killed in the Great War.
jackdeighton
17 November 2016 at 23:00
Denis,
Sad indeed. I have two more posts about Railway Wood to come…. And it’s a tiny wood really.