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Great and thoughtful place and able to walk through to NZ Messines Memorial from this site. Great views across to Hill 63.
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Date of experience: November 2018
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Visited this memorial while travelling to Albert. Great memorial to the Irish who fell during WWI. Situated near he scene of the battle of Messines. Beautiful round tower. Well worth a visit.
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Date of experience: September 2017
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Seen from the main road, this impressive memorial looks very moving. Surrounded by other smaller stone work, an informative area, where you can also sit down on a bench and try to contemplate what these men had to go through. United in their cause.
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Date of experience: September 2017
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Spoiled a little by the rain that day but not to be missed.Pause to read the inscriptions on the stone slabs as you advance towards the round tower built in stones imported from Ireland.This tower is very similar to one i visited many years ago in Glendalough,Southern Ireland. Loyalist Ulstermen and Southern Irish,the 36th,16th and 10th divisions remembered now and back in 1917 when they fought side by side on Messines Ridge.…
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Date of experience: July 2017
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Look at the plaques and the words they contain. Hard not to feel emotional at this spot, looking down the ridge, and imagining what took place here a hundred years ago.
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Date of experience: July 2017
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