Posted in Trips, War Graves, War Memorials at 20:00 on 7 June 2018
Situated just by the side of the N313 road and its junction with the Felix Nadarstraat in St Julien (Sint-Juliaan,) West Flanders, Belgium, the cemetery contains 248 graves. It lies only a kilometre or so from the Canadian war memorial known as the Brooding Soldier.
Cemetery gates:-

As can be inferred from the above view and this one of the graves this is yet another “corner of a foreign field”:-

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Posted in War Memorials at 12:00 on 4 August 2016
This is commonly called the Brooding Soldier:-

Sited on Vancouver Corner about a mile south-east of Langemark-Poelkapelle near Saint-Julien (Sint-Juliaan in Flemish,) it marks the spot where the first large-scale gas attack on the Western Front was launched by the Germans on 22nd April 1915. It sits in a beautifully kept memorial garden. The trees are apparently deliberately trimmed into the shape of artillery shells.

View from within the gardens:-

Closer view:-

Head detail. Stunning:-

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