The West Riding Memorial Tower at Essex Farm WWI Cemetery on the Belgium Salient near Ypres
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Allan Hartley / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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4004 x 6000 px | 33.9 x 50.8 cm | 13.3 x 20 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
6 September 2019Location:
Ypres, West Flanders, BelgiumMore information:
The CWGC Essex Farm Cemetery during the First World War was a casualty clearing station and is famous for two reasons the first being where Canadian Medical officer Colonel John McCrae was stationed when he wrote the famous poem in Flanders Fields and second it is where young Rifleman VJ Strudwick is buried the youngest combatant at 15 to be killed in action